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Williamite

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  • noun A follower of King William III of England who deposed King James II in the Glorious Revolution.

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William +‎ -ite

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Examples

  • His own fictions (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island) had been influenced by the onstage "kingdom of Transpontus" in the great age of melodrama, the late Georgian and Williamite era, but he realised that the texts that came with the cheap sheets were underwhelming compared with the images.

    Projections of puppet theatre Vera Rule 2010

  • The loss of our national story with all of its glorious controversies, dissent and diversities - Norman and Saxon, Yorkists and Lancastrians, Cranmer and Pole, Williamite and Jacobite, Whig and Tory, has led to New Labour's contrived, artificial pursuit of 'Britishness'.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • The loss of our national story with all of its glorious controversies, dissent and diversities - Norman and Saxon, Yorkists and Lancastrians, Cranmer and Pole, Williamite and Jacobite, Whig and Tory, has led to New Labour's contrived, artificial pursuit of 'Britishness'.

    The past is a foreign country Burke's Corner 2009

  • The Williamite ships finally broke the boom on the Foyle River and relieved the city.

    April 18-July 31 2001

  • August, a Williamite force of twenty thousand landed at

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • The mode of life, originally very severe, was mitigated by Pope Gregory IX, under whom the majority of the Williamite monasteries adopted the Rule of St. Benedict.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Grace took it from the pack and wrote on the back, "It ill becomes a gentleman to betray his trust," and gave it to the Williamite messenger.

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • Monarch, his defence of Limerick was a military achievement worthy of the ambition of any general; nor were his Williamite opponents slow to cordially appreciate his valour.

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • Macaulay by his defect of fervour as a Williamite.

    Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889

  • The Williamite army was well supplied, well trained, admirably commanded, accustomed to war, and amounted to between forty and fifty thousand.

    An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864

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