loyalist
See also: Loyalist
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɔɪəlɪst/
- Hyphenation: loy‧al‧ist
Noun
loyalist (plural loyalists)
- A person who is loyal to a cause, generally used as a political affiliation.
- 1999, Harry M. Ward, The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society, Psychology Press (→ISBN), page 35
- Most estimates place one-third of Americans as loyalist, one-third on the fence, to be swayed by whomever was winning, and one-third rebel.
- 2013, Shu-mei Shih, Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, Columbia University Press (→ISBN), page 101
- In this sense, a new loyalist aesthetic can also be perceived in simplistic works such as anticommunist literature and melancholic works such as nostalgic fiction and prose.
- 1999, Harry M. Ward, The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society, Psychology Press (→ISBN), page 35
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