Thermidoriann.adj.

1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 276 Un thermidorien, spéculateur révolutionnaire—A thermidorian, and speculator in revolutions.

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon II. ix. 356 The Thermidoriens, as the actors in Robespierre's downfall termed themselves.

1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon III. ii. 58 The Thermidorians..who had killed Robespierre, and now reigned in his stead.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1229/2 It was the month signalized by the overthrow of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror; thence commonly called the Revolution of Thermidor, and those who boasted of having participated in it called themselves Thermidorians.

1981 Encounter Dec. 34/1 The Thermidorians..are themselves not easy to define..and the Thermidorian régime..is so fragmented as to defy any simple analysis.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxiv. 34 July passed over their heads, and the Thermidorean weather which came in its wake seemed [etc.].

1895 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 391 The Thermidorian leader [Barras].

1938 C. Brinton Anat. of Revol. viii. 244 The ensuing slow and uneven return to quieter, less heroic times has long been known to French historians as the Thermidorean reaction.

1974 tr. W. F. Wertheim Evol. & Revol. 333 It is against the background of these Thermidorian tendencies in the Soviet Union that we have to view the so-called ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ in China.

1978 Pacific Affairs 51 474 For them the Thermidorian effects of the bureaucratic restoration were much mitigated by the emergence at the helm of the enlightened Chou En-lai.