reactionist
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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Winston Churchill
Referring to a past which is dear to me, I have spoken of it with kindly sympathy; but I should be sorry to create any misapprehension, and to be taken for an uncompromising reactionist.
From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan
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 John Morley
The next day the people returned, forming lines in front of the theatre, and forced the reactionist deputies to undergo their republican cheers.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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