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Yorkist /ˈjɔːkɪst /historical nounAn adherent or a supporter of the House of York, especially in the Wars of the Roses.Only then did she fully take over the reins of government in her husband's name to set out to destroy the Yorkists....- The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, in the War of the Roses.
- The Yorkists and Lancastrians exchange a violent parley.
adjectiveRelating to the House of York: the town rallied itself to the Yorkist cause...- By marrying Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, Henry VII then proffered the essential palliative to those Yorkist defectors who had joined him against Richard in the first place.
- The first challenge from Yorkist irreconcilables came as soon as April 1486, was headed by Lord Lovel and the Hastings brothers, and was put down without difficulty.
- We've been shadow boxing with our own version of a Lancastrian and Yorkist rivalry.
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