reactionist

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French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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.

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

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.