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loyalist, n. (and a.)|ˈlɔɪəlɪst|
[f. loyal a. + -ist.]
a. One who is loyal; one who adheres to his sovereign or to constituted authority, esp. in times of revolt; one who supports the existing form of government; spec. (freq. with capital initial) an Irish advocate or supporter of parliamentary union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland (or, before partition, the whole of Ireland).
United Empire Loyalist (Amer. Hist.): see quot. 1897. For the quot. from Howell's Vocal Forest (1640) given by Johnson to illustrate this word, see Loyolist.
[1647The Royall, and the Royallist's Plea (running title) The Royall and the Loyallists Plea.] 1685J. Kettlewell (title) The Religious Loyalist: or, a Good Christian Taught. How to be a Faithful Servant both to God and the King. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 294 The wounded were above 400 of the Loyalists. 1721Wood's Ath. Oxon. (ed. 2) II. 98/2 It was then the hap and fortune of one Dr. Tho. Bayly a great Loyallist, to meet with this Nobleman. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connect. 357 Colonel Street Hall, of Wallingford, a loyalist, was appointed General. 1812Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 205 The provinces of Spanish America were still the theatre of a sanguinary civil war between the two parties of independents and loyalists. 1852Thackeray Esmond i. (1876) 2 This resolute old loyalist..was with the King whilst his house was thus being battered down. 1885Times 11 Nov. 7/2 A meeting of the Loyalists of the county Wexford..was held to-day..in order to declare a firm adherence to the legislative union between Ireland and Great Britain. 1886Lady Monkswell Jrnl. 1 Feb. in Victorian Diarist (1944) I. 125 If he [sc. Mr. Gladstone] proposes Home Rule I almost think the loyalists will fight. 1893Times 11 May 9/2 The Loyalists in Ireland repudiated with one voice the Legislative Council proposed in the [Home Rule] Bill. 1893Times 11 May 9/3 Mr. Rentoul asserted that the Loyalists in Ireland repudiated with one voice the Legislative Council proposed in the Bill. 1897J. G. Bourinot Canada xxi. 291 This event was the coming to the provinces of many thousand people, known as United Empire Loyalists, who during the progress of the war..left their old homes in the thirteen colonies. Ibid. 297 Those loyalists..who joined the cause of Great Britain before the Treaty of Peace in 1783, were allowed the distinction of having after their name the letters U.E. to preserve the memory of their fidelity to a United Empire. 1934Hansard Lords 25 July 1073, I am glad to understand that the Irish loyalists are not suffering from any injustice or persecution by reason of their political faith. 1975Irish Times 10 May 11/1 It is politic, of course, for the Loyalists to cut sober figures these days. 1986Daily Tel. 14 May 1/7 Several Loyalists were arrested in Northern Ireland yesterday in connection with rioting during an illegal parade.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1885Times 19 Oct. 12/4 (heading) The loyalist union in Ireland. 1934Times 7 May 11/6 The immediate object for which the Irish Loyalist Imperial Federation has been formed is to assert the constitutional rights and privileges of all loyal South Irish-born subjects of the King. 1970[see maritime n. 1 b]. 1986Sunday Tel. 11 May 3/1 A territory the ‘loyalist’ extremists were designating ‘Catholic-free’. |