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counterrevolutionaryism

counterrevolutionaryism noun: the activity or beliefs of a counterrevolutionary.

Noun

counterrevolutionaryism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) 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

Origin of counterrevolutionaryism

From counterrevolutionary + -ism.

Questions about counterrevolutionaryism

What does counterrevolutionaryism mean?
Counterrevolutionaryism means the activity or beliefs of a counterrevolutionary.
What part of speech is counterrevolutionaryism?
Counterrevolutionaryism is a noun.

Words near counterrevolutionaryism in the dictionary

  1. counterrevolts
  2. counterrevolution
  3. counterrevolutionaries
  4. counterrevolutionariness
  5. counterrevolutionary
  6. counterrevolutionaryism
  7. counterrevolutionist
  8. counterrevolutionists
  9. counterrevolutionize
  10. counterrevolutionized
  11. counterrevolutionizes

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