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Republican vs Royalist - What's the difference?

republican | royalist | Antonyms |

Royalist is a antonym of republican.



As nouns the difference between republican and royalist

is that republican is someone who favors a republic as a form of government while royalist is a monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime.

As an adjective republican

is advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government.

republican

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 222:
    • Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements ).
  • Of or belonging to a republic.
  • * Macaulay
    • The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
  • * 1791 , James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson :
    • Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican . One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
  • A bird of a kind that builds many nests together: the American cliff swallow, or the South African weaver bird.

    • See also

    * anti-monarchist (1) * antiroyalist (1) * egalitarian (2) * antifascist (4) * rational (5)

    royalist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a monarchist (supporter of monarchy) or supporter of a particular royal régime
  • a legitimist, a supporter of a particular royal line, especially one in danger of being dispossessed of a throne or actually dispossessed of such, and claiming to have the better claim to the throne on the basis of line of descent; especially:
  • # a Cavalier, a supporter of King Charles I of England during the English Civil War
  • # a supporter of the House of Bourbon, in France since the 18th century and especially during the French Revolution
  • # a supporter of Ferdinand VII of Spain in Spanish South America during the South American Wars of Independence of the 1810s and 1820s

    • Synonyms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Antonyms

    * democrat * republican

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