counterrevolution
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tərˌrɛv noun
1.
a revolution against a government recently established by a revolution.
2.
a political movement that resists revolutionary tendencies.
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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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Example sentences
The line between revision and counterrevolution is a thin one.
Yet to start taking responsibility would require a cultural counterrevolution.
Behold the counterrevolution, a machination of the state.
It was, at one and the same time, a genuine revolution and an authentic counterrevolution.
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