antimonarchist

(ˌæntɪˈmɒnəkɪst)

adj

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) opposed to a monarchy

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a person who is opposed to a monarchy

Translations

antimonarchiste

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The man who wrote famous antimonarchist anthem God Save

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Queen Elizabeth II conferred the title of Master of the Queen's Music onto Davies despite his outspoken antimonarchist views, and correspondingly as an atheist.

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Things looked up, though, when an antimonarchist lent me a fiver for food and drink.

BANANAS REPUBLIC

131) The gradual evolution of the English jury "from an institution of customary law to a check on despotism" in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries caused the jury trial right to become "a battle cry in the French Revolution and the antimonarchist movements on the European Continent that followed.

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Burks demonstrates how these regicidal historians revived the earlier language and imagery which linked political impositions with the sexual transgressions of the monarch: "These antimonarchist writers set out to prove that Charles was a tyrant by pointing to the arbitrariness of his will, which they insinuated was not only a will to power, but also a will to pleasure irrational and boundless in its desire" (269).

Horrid Spectacle: Violation in the Theater of Early Modern England

To this end, Churchill blocked the respected antimonarchist leader Count Carlo Sforza from becoming prime minister in 1944.

Does nation building work?

Nepal's ongoing antimonarchist conflict has claimed more than 11,000 lives in the past nine years.

Father of Nepal's top rebel leader to join peace campaign

Achinstein is certainly not unaware that she is talking about a heterogeneous group that contained moderate Presbyterians, antimonarchist Congregationalists, radical Baptists, and the particularly despised Quakers.

Literature and Dissent in Milton's England

I haven't even heard an antimonarchist on Newsnight pretend to fight Burrell's corner in the quiet belief he is the best hope republicans have of toppling the House of Windsor.

The butler must be allowed to tell us what he saw

Born in Vienna in 1755, she married the future king of France at 14, and died at the guillotine in Paris at 37, found guilty by her antimonarchist enemies of plotting against her adopted country.

Marie Antoinette: The Journey. (Non Fiction)

8) He simply had the misfortune of broadening his reading tastes at an inopportune time--in the wake of antimonarchist developments in Western Europe and on the stern watch of the autocratic Nicholas I, against whom the coup d'etat attempt of the Decembrists had been directed.

Crime and Punishment

This firebrand member of Giuseppe Mazzini' s "Young Italy" movement had been sentenced to death because of his role plotting the antimonarchist Genoa uprising of 1854.