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

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

With the exception of the interlude during the reign of the reactionist Julian, Christianity was the established religion of the Empire.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred