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单词 yorkist
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Yorkistn.adj.

Brit. /ˈjɔːkɪst/, U.S. /ˈjɔrkəst/
Etymology: < York n.1 (see below) + -ist suffix.
1.
a. An adherent of the house of York, the English royal family which based its title on its descent from Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and Edmund, Duke of York (died 1402), the third and the fifth sons of Edw. III; or one of the party (whose emblem was the White Rose) which supported this family in the Wars of the Roses.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > adherent of House of York or Lancaster
Yorkist1601
Lancastrist1654
Lancastrian1838
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cv Then high-resolued Hotspur,..Join'd with the Yorkists, made a mutinie.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 84 From whence Richard Beauchamp Bishop of Salisbury, is sent to offer the Yorkists a full and generall Pardon.
1726–31 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (1743) I. xii. 583/1 The King having advanced with design to give Battle, the Yorkists sent him a very submissive Letter.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. i. 28 Offering with large sums of money to purchase England to the Yorkists.
1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. v. 106 The Vineyards had been a battle-field; and under the long wavy grass..slept many a Yorkist and Lancastrian.
b. attributive or as adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [adjective] > of or supporting House of York or Lancaster
Yorkish1548
Yorkshire1643
York1759
Yorkist1823
Lancastrian1828
1823 S. Turner Mod. Hist. Eng. III. ii. 321 The Christmas of 1469, seemed to have ended all hostilities between these two Yorkist parties.
1861 Sat. Rev. 7 Dec. 586 The Yorkist poems are numerous. There is one on the reconciliation of Henry and Duke Richard.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xx. 339 The Yorkist Collar is formed of suns and roses.
2. A supporter of James, Duke of York (c1680), in his claim to succeed to the crown on the death of his brother, Charles II.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Toryism or conservatism > a Tory or conservative > as opposing Exclusion Bill
Tory1678
anti-Birmingham1681
Yorkist1681
1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 124 The former [party] are called by the latter, tories, tantivies, Yorkists, high-flown church men, &c.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §9 321 It is easy to imagine how rampant these Procurators of Power, the Exclusioners, were..: Every where insulting and menacing the Loyallists... This Trade..naturally led to a common Use of slighting and opprobrious Words; such as Yorkist.
1858 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. IV. xxi. 350 The anti-exclusionists were first called Yorkists.]
3. An inhabitant of York: = Yorker n.1 1. rare.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > other towns
Oxonianc1540
Yarmouthian1614
Manchesterian1645
Novocastrian1645
wacker1768
Stratfordian1769
Mancunian1771
docker1791
Yorkist1796
Dicky Sam1820
Brummie1824
Liverpudlian1833
Yarmouth bloater1849
Exonian1871
Grimbarian1886
Cheltonian1887
Plym1913
Hoxtoniana1935
scouse1945
loiner1950
Scouser1959
Wulfrunian1959
Manc1961
pie eater1985
1796 Sporting Mag. 7 55 Once a Cockney and Yorkist maintain'd a dispute, Whether London or York was of oldest repute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.adj.1601
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