reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

"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)

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

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