Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Devotion to a government or cause; the animating principle of loyalists.
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- noun The property of being a
loyalist .
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Examples
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The British, with the old cry of "loyalism," and with Orangemen in the van, rioted, mobbed the Governor, and burnt down the Parliament House at Montreal.
The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896
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So he explained how the secretarianism was never really about religion but had far more to do with 'loyalism' vs 'nationalism'.
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Dougie's dad owned this scuddy Motor Inn place and then one day renamed it, calling it The United Sates Motel, showcasing his megawatt loyalism not one hundred yards away from a really well-known cave, or what used to just be this intense gaping hole in the ground.
CfK Kilean Kennedy 2011
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In a similar way to how football hooligans once coalesced around support for Ulster loyalism and hatred of the IRA, the followers of the EDL genuinely believe they are "defending" their Britain against the threat of Islam.
English Defence League is a bigger threat than the BNP Jon Cruddas 2010
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Equally striking are the entries for the ordinary women and men whose lives we glimpse, attesting to the range and depth of loyalism—and the extent to which the revolution really was America's first civil war.
Anti-Revolutionary British Loyalists Maya Jasanoff 2011
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The early loyalism of the Muslim elite, in such strategy, remains unexplained, as it does not fit the resistance model.
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Constructing Pakistan attempts to re-read this loyalism as a sophisticated form of resistance that, in the end, makes the Muslim question central to the British politics of post-rebellion era.
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The Provisional IRA was the most professional, most dangerous in Europe and loyalism withstood it all.
Ireland: UDA questions police effectiveness as loyalists get restless 2010
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Constructing Pakistan attempts to re-read this loyalism as a sophisticated form of resistance that, in the end, makes the Muslim question central to the British politics of post-rebellion era.
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The early loyalism of the Muslim elite, in such strategy, remains unexplained, as it does not fit the resistance model.
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