reactionist
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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is something striking in the stern reactionist thus introducing to Rome the man who was more instrumental than any other in overthrowing his hopes and fixing the new culture beyond possibility of recall.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Charlotte Corday was a reactionist, but she slew Marat and died calmly and bravely.
From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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 John Morley
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
