reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Morley, John

At four o'clock some of the reactionist companies appeared, resolute, in good order, their muskets on their shoulders, and took possession of the quarters of the Bourse.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

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

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond