counterrevolutionary
coun·ter·re·volutionary
adjective
1.
marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution
- “ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies”
noun
1.
a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
Origin
From counter- + revolutionary. Originally applied to thinkers who opposed themselves to the 1789 French Revolution.
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