reactionist
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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 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
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 John Leighton
