reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Voltaire, the great intellectual director of Europe for fifty years, and Rousseau, the great emotional reactionist, had both, as we know, died in 1778.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John

Many reactionist papers have been suppressed by the prefecture, but for all that are not dead; for a lad, without any mystery about him, offers them to us.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

They would accuse you of being, what you are doubtless, a reactionist, and you might get into trouble.

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John

Perhaps the only Englishman with whom in this respect he may be compared, is Sir Thomas More,—that virtuous and eloquent reactionist of the sixteenth century.

From Burke by Morley, John