- a variation of reactionary.
reactionist
Example Sentences
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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great reactionist is a type that is wholly dark to him.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley
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 John Morley
Evidence has come to light that all this time he was speaking in an entirely different key whenever his visitor was a reactionist or a clerical.
From Cavour by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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 P. Lissagary
