reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Yes," he said, "there are people who think I am a reactionist because I put down the ball-alley."

From The Untilled Field by Moore, George (George Augustus)

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

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond

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.

Rousseau was an exception, but then Rousseau was in truth a reactionist, and not a loyal member of the great company of reformers.

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