reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

You are an old reactionist: you bore us with your talking.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

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 Morley, John

In the main, therefore, these speeches, with all their fresh brilliancy of colouring and treatment, hold up the good old banner of social progress, which we erect against reactionist and revolutionist alike.

From Liberalism and the Social Problem by Churchill, Winston