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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
counter-revolution
noun
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▪ By the mid-1970s collectivist policies and the constraints on government they represented were so deeply entrenched that a virtual counter-revolution was required.
▪ Once again, the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head.
▪ Part of Irina Volkova would believe in a cross that might cause people to rise up and start a counter-revolution.
▪ So the Thatcherite counter-revolution has redefined the idea of justice.
▪ Talk of revolution and counter-revolution has been banned from the rhetoric of the moment.
▪ The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find - dismaying though that may be for party propagandists.
▪ Two revolutions and a counter-revolution, then.
▪ Unusually, there is no counter-revolution to the women's movement.

Usage examples of "counter-revolution".

There is not one of these scoundrels who would not accept a counter-revolution, provided they could be allowed to crush and stamp on the most noted conservatives.

Antoine, said: If our husbands made the Revolution we know how to make a counter-revolution if that should be necessary.

Consequently, according to the revolutionaries, the counter-revolution will have taken place in the year VI.

Woe to whoever would take them from us again, to convert them into a focus of counter-revolution " - M.

The magic art of the hero of the liberty of Marseilles, that Renaud who, under the mask of devotion, surprised the watchful sentinel of Notre-Dame de la Garde, and whose manly courage and cunning ensured the conquest of that key of the great focus of counter-revolution, has just given birth to a new trait of genius a new Deucalion, he personifies this stone which Liberty has flung from the summit of our menacing Bastilles, etc.

The Americans moved in a more moderate and tentative manner towards the great achievement, but with them also a counter-revolution finally appeared in the rise of an influential class who, by openly defending slavery, repudiated the principles upon which the government was founded.

Only, the barbarism of 1815, which should be called by its special name, the counter-revolution, was shortwinded, soon out of breath, and soon stopped.