a. and sb.
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Oliver Cromwell, who became Protector of the Commonwealth of England in 1653. B. sb. An adherent or partisan of Cromwell; one of the settlers in Ireland at the ‘Cromwellian Settlement’ of 1652, or of their descendants.
1725. Swift, Riddle. A damn’d cromwellian knock’d me down.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 112. The stern Cromwellian, now … left the undisputed lord of the blood-stained and devastated island.
So also Cromwellate (cf. Protectorate), Cromwelliad, Cromwellism, Cromwellist, Cromwellite, Cromwellized.
a. 1834. Coleridge, in Fraser’s Mag. (1835), XII. 128/1. Of the time of Charles I. and the Cromwellate. Ibid. (1850), Latter-day Pamph., viii. 20. Puritan Cromwelliads on the great scale.
1685. South, Serm. ‘Will for Deed,’ I. 275. When Rage and Persecution, Cruelty and Cromwellism were at that diabolical Pitch.
1881. Parnell, in Daily News, 3 Oct., 6/3. The Gospel of Puritanism, which might be called Cromwellism.
1649. C. Walker, Hist. Independ., II. 195. They joyned but to prevent the Cromwellists.
1648. ‘Mercurius Pragmaticus,’ Plea for King, 12. Even the very Cromwelites.
1648. C. Walker, Hist. Independ., I. 34. How faithfull then! How perfideous and Cromwellized are they now!
