[f. LOYAL a. + -ISM.] The principles or actions of a loyalist; adherence to the sovereign or government; loyalty.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, lxiii. (1842), 556. This feature of Irish loyalism was new to the untravelled Scotch of the party.
1837. Chamb. Jrnl., IV. 12. Why, then, should I, a student, foresee, beneath this wealth of loyalism, a rising power that would crush and kill both the lauders and the lauded.
