Reactionary
[rɪ'ækʃ(ə)n(ə)rɪ] or [rɪ'ækʃənɛri]
Definition
(noun.) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism.
(adj.) extremely conservative .
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Definition
(a.) Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
(n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
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Examples
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- True, he hated promiscuity even worse than marriage, and a liaison was only another kind of coupling, reactionary from the legal marriage. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As early as 1680 Sir Isaac Newton proposed a steam carriage in which the propelling power was the reactionary discharge of a rearwardly directed jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Constructive business has no end of reactionary moments----the most striking, perhaps, is when it buys up patents in order to suppress them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Even the reactionary press speaks in a kindly way about these men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At first Tiberius Gracchus was a moderate reformer of a rather reactionary type. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Political discussion, whether reactionary or radical, is monotonously confined to very few issues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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