Definitions for Yorkist

Yorkist York·ist

Spelling: [yawr-kist]
IPA: /ˈyɔr kɪst/

Yorkist is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in Yorkist (ikorsty).

Definitions for Yorkist

noun

  1. an adherent or member of the royal family of York, especially in the Wars of the Roses.

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to the English royal family of York.
  2. of or relating to the Yorkists.

Origin of Yorkist

First recorded in 1595-1605; York + -ist

Examples for Yorkist

Why does the daughter of Warwick, the Yorkist, seek refuge in the house of the fallen and childless Lancastrian?

Queen Margaret, the 'outlandish woman' as her Yorkist enemies called her, was in Chester in the year 1459.

Extra taxes on aliens were levied under both Lancastrian and Yorkist rulers with little profit.

In that year the Yorkist forces were once more marshalled against those of the King.

Free from the passionate enmities of either faction, Yorkist and Lancastrian are but Englishmen to me.

All the pendant badges which I have enumerated belong to secular heraldry, as do the roses and suns which form the Yorkist collar.

On the Tuesday the great nobles, leaders in the fight, were executed, and the Yorkist vengeance was complete.

But the Londoners showed that they had no sympathy; they were on the Yorkist side in the interest of strong government.

Burdet had figured as a Yorkist and fought for the White Rose.

To secure this combination he had promised to marry Elizabeth, the heiress of the Yorkist family.

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