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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Although the company lowered its full-year outlook, the market quickly caught on to management’s conservatism, allowing the stock to rally.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2025 -
Advancing American Freedom is holding to traditional, Reagan-esque conservatism, publicly rejecting populist instincts on economics and trade while being highly skeptical of new alliances with former Democrats.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Reactionaryism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionaryism. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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