I. adjective
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■ NOUN
forces
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First, he argued, there had been post-revolutionary disillusionment which had allowed reactionary forces to become influential.
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Reactionary politicians voted against the proposal.
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Cultural attitudes to women were more reactionary than in most of Western Europe.
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He is known for his reactionary views on immigration and the reintroduction of the death penalty.
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The seventy year old president has been condemned as reactionary by his radical opponents.
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And the main reason was that reactionary and factious opposition led the Government to seek and obtain an immediate dissolution of Parliament.
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But the reactionary left rejected change, to the present detriment of those it claims to represent.
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Elated by their first opportunity to serve as Guardians of Truth and Traditional Wisdom, they weighed in with equally reactionary vigor.
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In a reactionary decade there are many who will not be hesitant to use such state-ments to confirm their former views.
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This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general, ahistorical terms.
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We realise today that this reactionary generation grew up to be the most materialistic the world has ever known.
II. noun
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That Ptolemy was a conservative, even a reactionary in certain respects, is undeniable.
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The damage was two-fold, for within months of Kiselev's departure a reactionary took his place.
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The fact is that Berlioz, who invented the modern orchestra, was a fervent reactionary throughout his life.