reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

The next day the people returned, forming lines in front of the theatre, and forced the reactionist deputies to undergo their republican cheers.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

Under Gregory XVI. he had been a reactionist, to please his sovereign.

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond

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

Rousseau was an exception, but then Rousseau was in truth a reactionist, and not a loyal member of the great company of reformers.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John