Counterrevolutionaryism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The activity or beliefs of a counterrevolutionary. rare, uncountable

    "The 1770s and 1780s saw the fierce renewal of the campaign to regulate alehouses, even before the intense counterrevolutionaryism of the 1790s."

Example

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"The 1770s and 1780s saw the fierce renewal of the campaign to regulate alehouses, even before the intense counterrevolutionaryism of the 1790s."

Etymology

From counterrevolutionary + -ism.

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