counterrevolutionaryism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From counterrevolutionary +‎ -ism.

Noun[edit]

counterrevolutionaryism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The activity or beliefs of a counterrevolutionary.
    • 1992, GJ Barker-Benfield, The Culture of Sensibility, University of Chicago, published 1996, section 58:
      The 1770s and 1780s saw the fierce renewal of the campaign to regulate alehouses, even before the intense counterrevolutionaryism of the 1790s.