oppositionistn.adj.

1786 European Mag. 9 296 Ministers and Oppositionists vie with each other who shall be most frugal and saving of the public money.

1797 J. Boucher View Causes Amer. Revol. vii. 297 Like modern oppositionists..they seem to have thwarted David..as..the best way to promote some indirect purpose of their own.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) II. 191 The oppositionists to ‘things as they are’, are divided into many and different classes.

1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion I. 294 The various ministers, the Oppositionists, and officials walked in.

1943 L. Adamic My Native Land (ed. 3) 110 Sixty thousand uniformed gendarmes..were ceaselessly on the lookout for Reds and oppositionists such as ultra-nationalistic Croatians.

1973 Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 16 Dec. 4/3 The Consul-General attributed the rumours to be the work of ‘oppositionists’ who he said are trying to embarrass the Government.

1995 Guardian 28 Sept. ii. 3/3 She's basically an oppositionist. She's not a team player.

1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 27 Feb. (1964) I. 264 The public papers are either oppositionist or ministerial.

1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion III. 220 The grave nature of the Oppositionist attack.

1963 Cambr. Rev. 4 May 405/2 An individual perception of reality—as distinguished from a conformist perception, whether it be ‘official’ or ‘oppositionist’—is of value and interest.

1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) 287 President Bush's Chief of Staff..cited these oppositionist critics to justify a go-slow approach.