What's the difference between monarchist and royalist?

Monarchist


Definition:

  • (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But even monarchists should recognise that the Queen has survived some four decades of her son’s often eccentric preaching on numerous topics.
  • (2) He even suggested that her extremism disruption orders could be abused to slap down “monarchists, communists and even Christians objecting to gay marriage”’.
  • (3) If you are a monarchist, this is surely one of the Queen’s greatest failures: she was in charge of the prince’s education and upbringing, yet she has been singularly ineffectual as a brake on his excesses.
  • (4) Describing herself as neither a republican or a monarchist, Marie said: “To be frank, I didn’t think it was a big deal whether he sung or didn’t sing.
  • (5) Apart from the odd opinion piece from the Australian Monarchist League, there is widespread condemnation of the move across the local media, from the left to the right, from News Corp through Fairfax Media and the ABC.
  • (6) Anna Kuznetsova , the new ombudswoman for children, is a 35-year-old ultra-conservative mother of six, wife of an Orthodox priest, and a monarchist.
  • (7) The avowed monarchists were successful during that year’s referendum.
  • (8) One doesn't have to be a signed and sealed monarchist to believe a tradition which has existed since the 1840s, and is regarded with affection by millions, might have some social value.
  • (9) Instead, British monarchist politicians indulge Prince Charles .
  • (10) The victory for transparency now needs carrying on to more challenging territory As for the propriety of the prince’s actions as heir to the throne, it seems the monarchist right and republican left have joined forces in constitutional hysteria.
  • (11) "I never really saw him as a king, and I don't even know if I'm a monarchist" admitted Paul Van De Grampel, a financier in the City of London who took a snap decision on Tuesday morning to rush home for the big day.
  • (12) It was here, in what was Passage Saumon off the Rue du Bout du Monde – the end of the world road – that Victor Hugo is said to have sheltered between the stone pillars of the public baths and a ballroom of low repute from a raging battle between republican and monarchist forces on 5 June 1832.
  • (13) When, in 2003, the designer who had loved to provoke with anti-monarchist statements was presented with his CBE, he told his parents that on meeting the Queen their eyes met, “and it was like falling in love”.
  • (14) The group's first action, said Ricardo Sixto of the coalition, would be a large rally on Saturday in Madrid and several other cities as a show of force by 50 or so anti-monarchist groups.
  • (15) Even ardent monarchists accept the need for updating.
  • (16) He eventually falls back on the stock defence of the lukewarm monarchist: they're good for tourism.
  • (17) Abbott’s version is the same: a joke for the benefit of the few true monarchists left in the country, overwhelmingly men of Philip’s ilk.
  • (18) Pre-eminent” Australians will become knights and dames at the Queen’s approval for the first time since 1989 after a shock announcement by the staunchly monarchist prime minister, creating a new tier of honour as an “important grace note” in our national life.
  • (19) A song that unites the country so monarchist, atheist and committed republican can stand side by side and be proud of their country.
  • (20) Exiled Iranians from different political groups including republicans, leftists, constitutional monarchists and the green movement gathered for a two-day conference in Stockholm at the weekend, organised by the umbrella group United for Democracy in Iran (UDI) to scrutinise the vote.

Royalist


Definition:

  • (n.) An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly, he was an intimate of Vuk Draskovic, the royalist opposition leader and the main opposition figure in the early 90s, but broke with him.
  • (2) As I said, I'm not much of royalist (I'm not even interested enough to be anti-monarchy), but purely on a human level, let's hope that the child is healthy and happy.
  • (3) By 2pm around 200 royalists and tourists had gathered outside St James's.
  • (4) Royalists are hoping that Felipe VI, so far untouched by any scandals, will help bolster the popularity of Spain's monarchy, whose approval ratings have hovered at record lows in recent years.
  • (5) General Prawit Wongsuwon, appointed as chairman of the advisory board, and General Anupong Paojinda, appointed to handle international relations, are well known royalists who, together with Prayuth, helped stage the 2006 coup that deposed the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecoms billionaire who is still at the heart of Thailand's political instability.
  • (6) The monarchy’s foundations are less secure than is often assumed, which is why royalists should be worried that the Queen will leave behind an institution as unreformed as it is undemocratic.
  • (7) He was an unabashed royalist, and made no secret of his pleasure in attending lunch at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
  • (8) The prospect of restoring queen’s counsel in NSW and other states may recede, now that the tide in Canberra has turned against royalist flourishes.
  • (9) Thousands of anti-royalist protesters massed in the streets after Juan Carlos's abdication announcement.
  • (10) Popularly viewed as a motley ragbag of racist colonialists, Vichy sympathisers, antisemites and oddball royalists, Le Pen’s party was dismissed as a nasty coalition of history’s losers.
  • (11) Thierry Gaulot, a newly elected FN council member for Metz, around 35 miles from Forbach, insists that this is no longer about the old preoccupations of the French royalist right.
  • (12) The Newman government in Queensland with its frantically royalist attorney general Jarrod Bleijie, was a case in point.
  • (13) Legal action having failed, they duly swirled around the royalist end of Fleet Street .
  • (14) A career soldier known as a hardline royalist, Prayuth had been due to retire last year and spend his salad days playing golf.
  • (15) The contribution to the treatment of head injuries from Richard Wiseman, a Royalist surgeon during the English Civil War culminating in the battle of Worcester (1651), is presented.
  • (16) Recent attempts to reform the law have met fervent resistance by royalists, among them Prayuth, who according to the Associated Press told critics: "If you guys play hardball I'll have no choice but to do so too."
  • (17) Critics of the law say it has been used as a weapon against political enemies of the royalist elite and their military allies and now targets those opposed to the coup.
  • (18) There is, regardless of anyone's position on the royal family – and we do, on any 100-metre stretch, span the gamut: I met staunch royalists, fervent republicans, and a Polish guy called Bart who said: "I have no strong feelings, but I think it's nice for you to feel what you feel" – an underpinning idea that the Queen's job is quite hard.
  • (19) It sounds quite Scandinavian, which must be the way even British royalists will be heading when the Queen makes her last journey to the chapel at Windsor.
  • (20) Thailand’s ultra-royalist generals have long used their self-appointed position as defenders of the monarchy to justify coups and political interventions in the country’s often turbulent politics.

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