Antedating of "Monarchism"

[Fred Shapiro]

monarchism (OED 1792)

1742 J. Olivier _The History of the Life, and Surprizing Adventures of
Signor Rozelli_ 57 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  If I had
known, from that time, the spirit of monarchism, I should have taken care
not to have embrac'd it, as I afterwards did.

Fred Shapiro


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