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revolutionary

/ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/ noun C2
  1. A revolutionist; a person who revolts.

Plural revolutionaries

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Observe,” said Villefort, smiling, “I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 44 · C1
“Do you know, Villefort, that you are talking in a most dreadfully revolutionary strain?
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 44 · C1
Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 45 · C1
de Villefort, be, as you always are, kind and equitable, and give him back to us soon.” This give us sounded revolutionary in the deputy’s ears.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 59 · C1

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