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Synonyms for loyalist

a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)

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You will meet Mark Gallop of Heritage Branch proudly announcing a distinguished home and repository for Loyalist books and materials.
And in a no-holds-barred attack on the Alliance party, they add: "The LCC particularly warns all unionists and loyalists against voting for Alliance Party candidates.
The author argues that while some Loyalists endorsed the British cause on the basis of philosophical or political principles, most Americans took sides, changed sides, or chose to remain neutral due to fundamental exigencies of time and space.
The latest airstrike targeting the loyalists of the terror group comes amid ongoing operations to eliminate the loyalists of the terror group from the restive districts of Nangarhar.
BLACK LOYALISTS | HISTORY | NOVA SCOTIA | SETTLEMENT | SLAVERY
Watson thought it best that loyalists leave the United States, controlled by "Lawless wretches who now persecute them." (2) Certainly, Watson predicted, "The People of this Independent Country are run amuck and will soon, become objects of Compassion" and so abandoning the "Suds of Liberty" was wise.
NOW MAYA JASANOFF, ANOTHER HARVARD historian, offers a different kind of sympathetic account of the loyalists. Her story begins in Revolutionary America before 1783.
Often forgotten is the fact that loyalists made up a sizable proportion of the population.
Many loyalists expressed doubts that republican attacks along Belfast's peacelines would cease.
The city's public history was once more homogeneous, dominated by anglophone, Protestant, Imperialist, and Canadian nationalist tributes to the Loyalists. (7) By the early 20th century the Loyalists merited an entire week of activities in Saint John, and their legacy was a powerful barrier to competing visions of the past.
In the past, Ulster, Scottish and English loyalists have held good-natured marches from pub to pub, but no one seriously believes that will happen again after this.
Well it might have been the first time the individuals involved met the Taoiseach, but as for Loyalists meeting Bertie Ahern it was not historic.
but eventually he is arrested by the Loyalists, accused of spying.
But Adair last night claimed rank-and-file loyalists were backing him.
REPUBLICANS and loyalists have been involved in high-level talks in a bid to end violence in north Belfast.