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- noun Plural form of
reactionist .
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Examples
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Once again the smokers and civil rights reactionists are up in arms because of an Oregon measure that would make it illegal to smoke in your car if there is a kid in it.
A few thoughts on the proposed smoking near kids ban... joshenglish 2009
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We're not a nation of thinkers, we are knee-jerk reactionists who will follow anyone who has the ability to push our buttons.
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BET is one some bullshit for doing this so after the fact and being reactionists.
Counterignorance AKA Alternative Programming Or Kill Your Television Dart Adams 2007
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A historian may justly contend, if he thinks that the evidence warrants him, that Julian belongs to the type of virtuous reactionists, just as we may say it of Wesley or the chiefs of the Tractarians.
Voltaire 2007
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LOL, it was really funny, they guy was a nervous wreck, had a presecription for every type of mental quirk, not to mention she was also institutionalized for a time, and they would watch TV or News and being the hystrung reactionists that conservatives are the sky was forever falling..
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And I alone among the avenging reactionists could have told them that the Tuileries, although a crime, was none the less logical.
A Raw Youth 2003
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_This_ represents, we believe, with tolerable accuracy, what the anti-actionists and reactionists propose to give the soldier as a recompense for that leg.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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But suddenly a British man-of-war appeared; a file of marines marched on shore; the ringleaders of the reactionists were put into durance vile -- for an afternoon; and the taxes were paid up with marvellous rapidity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various
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But, worse than all, the reactionists in the South, who were bent upon curtailing the freedom of the emancipated negroes as much as possible, received his veto of the Civil Rights Bill with shouts of delight.
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He was then so powerful that the reactionists of the West cried for Russian cannon, to be used against the Reds.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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