reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is known for a Nero,—that is, a fanatical reactionist.

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond

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

In the main, therefore, these speeches, with all their fresh brilliancy of colouring and treatment, hold up the good old banner of social progress, which we erect against reactionist and revolutionist alike.

From Liberalism and the Social Problem by Churchill, Winston

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.