loyalist

• He was an eminent loyalist, among the first of those nobles who left Westminster, and at Newbury fight had his three horses killed under him. —  The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
• Behrenese traitor, loyalist, and Bearman alike rushed out from before the terrible splendor of Agradeleous, forgetting their own battles in the face of this much more significant danger. —  IMMORTALIS
• The announcement of the 72-year-old Gandhi family loyalist was made in a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique which said incumbent Rameshwar Thakur has been transferred to Madhya Pradesh. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
• The minister said he believed that loyalist leaders had sought to maintain calm in loyalist areas in the aftermath of the dissident republican attacks in which two soldiers and a police officer were murdered. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
• Take a look through the membership list and you'll recognize a good many prominent Blogging Tories, as well as such familiar names as Gerry Nichols, a former Conservative-loyalist (and Harper subordinate at the National Citizens Coalition) who has been on his own crusade (and book tour) of late lamenting how Harper has strayed from the path. —  A BCer in Toronto

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