reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The Superintendent of the Telegraph himself is here to inform us that Khalid was accused to the Military Tribunal as a reactionist, and a cablegram, in which he is summoned there, is just received.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

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