reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Young Russia greatly objected to the picture, and the author, who so far had been hailed as a champion of liberty, was now looked on as a reactionist.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur

Under Gregory XVI. he had been a reactionist, to please his sovereign.

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond

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 Renan, Ernest

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