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counterrevolutionaryism en · NOUN

Etymology

From counterrevolutionary + -ism.

Meanings

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