counter revolution

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

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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Counter revolution is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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