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ˈcounter-revoˈlution
[counter- 4.]
A revolution opposed to a previous revolution or reversing its results.
1793Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 388 A very large portion of the people are disposed to a counter revolution. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 180 The effect of such a counterrevolution would be..that William would sink into insignificance. 1890Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 138 A real counter-revolution may have effected itself in their opinions.
So counter-revoˈlutionary a., pertaining to or of the nature of a counter-revolution; also as n., a counter-revolutionist; counter-revoˈlutionist, one who takes part in a counter-revolution; ˌcounter-revoˈlutionize v., to subject to a counter-revolution.
1791Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 144 To the troops mentioned are added by the counter revolutionists 15,000 Hessians. 1799Ann. Reg. 1793 (Hist.) 259/1 Brissot..exclaimed against the tyranny of a forced loan, and represented..its counter-revolutionary operation. 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXVII. 473 To impress on public opinion a counter-revolutionary tendency. 1827Southey Hist. Penins. War II. 306 He should march against it with equal activity, whether revolutionized or counter-revolutionized. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) II. viii. 55 The counter-revolutionists had gained the ascendancy. 1849Grote Greece ii. lvi. (1862) V. 88 The oligarchical party..promised them a counter-revolutionary movement. 1917M. Farbman Russian Revol. 31 The counter-revolutionaries of the Right. 1920Times 13 Feb. 12/5 Every Pole in Russia has been treated by the Bolshevists as a counter-revolutionary. 1944S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha's Rebellion in Backlands p. xi, In 1893–94 came the counterrevolutionary revolt of the fleet, with civil war in Rio de Janeiro harbour. 1950Koestler in God that Failed 74 From then onward I no longer cared whether Hitler's allies called me a counter-revolutionary. |
