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disloyalist
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a resident of Canada who left for the United States during the War of 1812.
Quotations
1897
My father had got the privilege of occupying a large forfeited farm three miles from Dundas, once owned by a person named Mills . . . who at the commencement of the war of 1812 left the country as a disloyalist, and joined the Americans, forfeiting his farm.