Definitions
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- adjective In
opposition to arevolution - noun A person who opposes a revolution and attempts to
reverse the changes made by it
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
- adjective relating to or being a counterrevolution
- adjective marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution
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Examples
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If there's a war -- and some blogs troublingly trash professional standards as quaint and archaic, like communists denouncing anything "counterrevolutionary" -- the blogheads may have won, at least for now.
In the 500-channel universe, we're definitely lost in space Tom Shales 2010
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Mr. BERNSTEIN: Well, the government acknowledges 3,000 political prisoners; that is people in jail for what they loosely call counterrevolutionary crimes.
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We always call counterrevolutionary criminals by the name of counterrevolutionary criminals.
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His penalty was not confinement to Siberia or the Gulag, as may well have been the fate of Pavlik Marozov's "counterrevolutionary" parents.
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A few pages later it was the denounced himself who was relaying the "counterrevolutionary" expressions used by the cleaning assistant in the dining room.
Yoani Sanchez: "The Murmurs Overlap... Everyone Spies on Everyone." 2010
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The governor-general of West Azerbaijan province, Vahid Jalalzadeh, blamed the bombing on "counterrevolutionary" rebels, an apparent reference to Kurdish separatists.
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The governor-general of West Azerbaijan province, Vahid Jalalzadeh, blamed the bombing on "counterrevolutionary" rebels, an apparent reference to Kurdish separatists.
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In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies.
Mike Malloy: Poison 2009
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To contextualize this idea I would like to ask the signers of the document if you will remain silent when they come looking for a "counterrevolutionary" or a "worm" or an "opponent", if you will be among those who beat others in the repudiation rallies, or among those who defend the victim.
Yoani Sanchez: What Did You Do When They Came For The Nonconformist? 2009
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Zhang is one of very few military men who've called for a reassessment of the protest movement, which authorities still sometimes call a "counterrevolutionary" riot.
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