Crossword clues for counterrevolutionary
Wiktionary
a. In opposition to a revolution n. A person who opposes a revolution and attempts to reverse the changes made by it
WordNet
adj. marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; "ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies" [ant: revolutionary]
n. a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution [syn: counterrevolutionist, counter-revolutionist]
Usage examples of "counterrevolutionary".
Suddenly the new government began to look very bad on paper, and a new counterrevolutionary group looked stronger and better-tempered than it actually was.
Atlantic coastal region just south of Brittany that was a center of counterrevolutionary insurrection.
General Bonaparte fired on a crowd of royalists who had gathered near the Church of Saint-Roch, hoping to spark a counterrevolutionary coup.
Chairman, it is no counterrevolutionary plot, no nonsensical Trotskyite brigandage.
They could also be CIA, FBI, or possibly agents of the counterrevolutionary count that Stephanie hosed at the Carlyle.
It was a desperate second choice, one that none of mem wanted to take, for one could never be sure of the reaction of the Komisol representative if he were told that certain counterrevolutionary transactions were going on in the circus.
Engaging in counterrevolutionary activities, including the hoarding of gold, silver, jewels and food, and the illegal transfer of said money and jewels out of France.
Corresponding with emigres and writing counterrevolutionary propaganda.
I am also able to take last statements or confessions of any counterrevolutionary activities, names, places.
It was obvious he was not of counterrevolutionary or royalist sympathies, and in her mind that made him dangerous.
The counterrevolutionary network ran deep, and the profits of illicit trade meant there were usually British smuggling ships to be found looming off the coast.
But she did not want to involve him with counterrevolutionary activities, or place Justin in any danger by bringing an outsider to his home.
If one of them is caught, their loss will be a serious blow to the counterrevolutionary network.
A couple of counterrevolutionary sympathizers who were assigned to report on the number of bodies buried each day were watching, and they took him to a place where he could be cared for, and that is where he has stayed ever since.
James returned to France in 1792, with her daughter-in-law, Lucette, also a French citizen by birth and the daughter of a silk merchant imprisoned at the time because of his counterrevolutionary sympathies, and her granddaughter, Angelique.