Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One engaged in or advocating a counter-revolution.
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- noun a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
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Examples
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France; that he found himself seconded in this plan of destruction by thousands of hands and voices; that one citizen was executed for supplying the wounded with provisions, another for extinguishing a fire in his own house; and that when these pretexts failed, such ridiculous names as "quadruple" and "quintuple counter-revolutionist" were invented as terms of accusation.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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One of their first victims was an aged nun of the Simiane family, canoness of the convent of Bollene, accused of being a counter-revolutionist; so lame and infirm, that her executioners were forced to carry her to the scaffold.
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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The lad turned on his father and said, "Yes; you are an enemy of the Russian State; you are a counter-revolutionist; you are a hang-over from the old capitalistic regime; you don't produce anything."
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But this "counter-revolutionist" fully realized the Denikin menace to the Revolution.
My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923
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The Communists, on the other hand, were unanimous in defending the peace and denouncing as counter-revolutionist everybody who questioned the wisdom and the revolutionary justification of that agreement.
My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923
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He continued his warfare against the Soviets and was considered a dangerous counter-revolutionist.
My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923
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He desired to have it widely understood that he was not the bandit, Jew-baiter, and counter-revolutionist the Bolsheviki had proclaimed him.
My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923
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I went up to the counter-revolutionist Kornilovitz who sat in the presidents chair.
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Following Goujet's advice she countenanced the deeds of Mlle. de Cinq-Cygne, the bold, dashing counter-revolutionist of Arcis during 1803 and succeeding years.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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He preserved a firm and well-devised conduct, equi-distant from the throne and the people, from the counter-revolutionist and the malcontent, ready to go with the opinion of the court or of the nation, according as events might transpire.
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829
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