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counter revolution

[koun-ter-rev-uh-loo-shuhn] Origin

coun·ter·rev·o·lu·tion

[koun-ter-rev-uh-loo-shuhn]
noun
1.
a revolution against a government recently established by a revolution.
2.
a political movement that resists revolutionary tendencies.

Origin:
1785–95; counter- + revolution, as translation of French contre-révolution
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counterrevolution
also counter-revolution, 1791, from counter- + revolution. First recorded in U.S. with ref. to American Revolution.
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