Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The claims or opinions of, or devotion to, the Carlists of France, or of Spain. See Carlist.

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  • noun A political movement in Spain that seeks the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne

Etymologies

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From Carlos (“Infante Carlos, Count of Molina”) +‎ -ismo

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Examples

  • From an early age he honoured his condition of Christian Prince, devoting himself to the Cause of Carlism and Counterrevolution.

    True Allegiances Francis 2007

  • Palais de Justice, and peers of France to the Luxembourg; but one of the popularity-seeking ministers of the Citizen King had ousted him from his chair, on an accusation of Carlism, and the old man now found himself without pension or post, and with no bread to eat.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • The Apostolic party was apparently scotched and Carlism dead, but was not this one more move of the hated Jesuits to resuscitate both?

    Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

  • Carlism, the party of the Church against the nation, came into existence when, during the first years of Cristina's Regency,

    Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin

  • Although this prophecy was not made good, and the war was protracted for upwards of four years longer, it soon became evident that the loss sustained was irreparable, and that the hopes of Carlism in the

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

  • In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • On the one hand, he no doubt desired to assist a man introduced to him by the representative of Great Britain, to whom he looked for assistance in suppressing Carlism; on the other hand, he had the priesthood to consider, and they would without question use every means of which they stood possessed to preserve the prohibition against the dissemination of the Scriptures, without notes, a prohibition that had become almost a tradition.

    The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912

  • I paid for the tear-drop, tariff-wise, with an extra franc, although it is not my vocation to subsidize Carlism.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

  • Carlism and anarchy at home, she was grappling, at tremendous outlay, with two rebellions abroad.

    History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880

  • This explanation is necessary to make clear what is known by Carlism in

    Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII Charles Morris 1877

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