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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Age has brought thoughts of conservatism scurrying into the back of his mind.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2026 -
Many of these staffers are defecting to a new organization called Advancing American Freedom, founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, that espouses a much more traditional view of conservatism.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Reactionaryism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionaryism. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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