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reactionaryism

noun

Definition of reactionaryism

as in conservativeness

attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions the region's entrenched reactionaryism made it one of the major battlegrounds for the civil rights movement in the 1960s

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conservatism

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In Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar, long a center of conservatism in Iranian politics and still an economic force within the country, there was a heavy police presence and some expressed frustration at the value of Iran’s currency, the rial.

— Rob Wile, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
The incarnation of transactional conservatism, Bhumjaithai now controls every major mechanism of the state.

— Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026

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