- a variation of reactionary.
reactionist
Example Sentences
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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.
From Time Magazine Archive
That a reactionist can be great, can be a lover of virtue and truth, can in any sort contribute to the welfare of men, these are possibilities to which he will lend no ear.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley
Voltaire, the great intellectual director of Europe for fifty years, and Rousseau, the great emotional reactionist, had both, as we know, died in 1778.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
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
Evidence has come to light that all this time he was speaking in an entirely different key whenever his visitor was a reactionist or a clerical.
From Cavour by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
