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reˈactionist, n. and a.
[f. as reactionary a. and n. + -ist.]
a. A marked or professed reactionary. Also, a person who reacts against something.
1857J. F. Maguire Rome: its Ruler & its Institutions p. ix, I trust I have done sufficient to enable the reader..to estimate, at their right value, the accusations which have been made against him [sc. Pope Pius IX], as a reformer of the one day, and a reactionist of the next. 1861Q. Rev. CIX. 294 The utter weariness of spirit which this unresting scepticism has bred in most minds of the highest order of thought; the deep study into which it has driven the noble reactionists who have arisen there..have entirely altered the whole tone of religious feeling amongst our Teutonic brethren. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. lii. (1865) VI. 266 As usual with reactionists in social life,..they mistook the cause of the disease. 1883Jrnl. Educ. XVIII. 137 Nobody except the chronic reactionist and constitutional grumbler wants to keep back the colored people. 1900Dublin Rev. Jan. 35 Reactionists..signatories to the Royal supremacy in 1559, who in 1579 appeared in prison as recusants. 1902G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession p. xxx, Clergymen's sons are often conspicuous reactionists against the restraints imposed on them in childhood. 1909[see baby n. 1 e].
b. attrib. or as adj.
1858Froude Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 177 To the clergy and the reactionist lords he would not yield a step. 1866Pall Mall G. 21 Feb. 4/2 The Liberals..did not expect that the reactionist tendencies of the Government would be expressed so strongly. |