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- noun Plural form of
cardinalist .
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Examples
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France is divided into two parties, cardinalists and anti-cardinalists.
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Cardinal's men and anti-cardinalists, Mazarin and Monsieur, Condé and Plessis-Praslin, -- we follow the bewildering turns of their fortune and the senseless evolution of their mercenaries, without being able to trace any moral line of conduct, any ethical aim on the part of the one or the other.
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Edmund Gosse 1888
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Viglius, whom Berlaymont accused of doing his best, without success, to make his peace with the seigniors, was in even still greater disgrace than his fellow - cardinalists.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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They had quarrelled with Aerschot and Aremberg, they had more than half seduced Berlaymont, and they stigmatized all who refused to enter into their league as cardinalists and familiars of the inquisition.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The spectacle presented at the council-board was often sufficiently repulsive not only to the cardinalists, who were treated with elaborate insolence, but to all men who loved honor and justice, or who felt an interest in the prosperity of government.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He then called upon all the company to pledge him to the same toast, and denounced as cardinalists all those who should refuse.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 09: 1564-65 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Viglius, Berlaymont, Morillon, and all the lesser cardinalists were entirely taken in by the letters which were formally despatched to the Duchess in reply to her own and the Cardinal's notification.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The poor President was treated with the most marked disdain by Margaret, who also took pains to show her dislike to all the cardinalists.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Aremberg was expected to join him, and it was rumored that measures were secretly in progress under the auspices of these two leading cardinalists, for introducing a garrison, together with great store of ammunition, into the city.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I John Lothrop Motley 1845
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The cardinalists felt naturally very much enraged, but they were in a minority.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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