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.

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

Charlotte Corday was a reactionist, but she slew Marat and died calmly and bravely.

From A Girl of the Commune by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond