Jacobin
['dʒækəubin]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
Edited by Craig--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.
(n.) One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the Jacobin convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris, and concerted measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.
(n.) A fancy pigeon, in which the feathers of the neck form a hood, -- whence the name. The wings and tail are long, and the beak moderately short.
(a.) Same as Jacobinic.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dominican, predicant, blackfriar, preaching friar.[2]. Anarchist, turbulent demagogue.
Typist: Tyler
Definition
n. a French Dominican monk so named from their original establishment being that of St Jacques Paris: one of a society of revolutionists in France so called from their meeting in the hall of the Jacobin convent: a demagogue: a hooded pigeon.—adjs. Jacobin′ic -al.—v.t. Jac′obinise.—n. Jac′obinism the principles of the Jacobins or French revolutionists.
Editor: Rae
Examples
- Such was the quality of most of the leaders of the Jacobin party. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They backed the election of a Jacobin as Mayor of Paris. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But we'll not have you a Jacobin, returned he. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To which riddle the Jacobin reply was to set about dividing up. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Besides being an Antinomian, he is a violent Jacobin and leveller, sir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For some years, until the fall of Robespierre, he remained a Jacobin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The new phase of revolution, the Jacobin revolution, was the direct outcome of this proclamation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For instance, how would you like to meet Michael Hartley, that mad Calvinist and Jacobin weaver? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Helstone denounced Moore as a Jacobin, ceased to see him, would not even speak to him when they met. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He forbade me to see you because you are a Jacobin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A queer Jacobin! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In his early honest Jacobin days he had denounced it for that very reason. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are a little Jacobin, for anything I know--a little freethinker, in good earnest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And the Jacobin government not only replanned--in eloquent outline--the economic, but also the social system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These Jacobins were the equivalents of the American radicals, men with untrammelled advanced ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Jacobins, the extreme republican party, grew rapidly in strength. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Kings and Jacobins were at one, when it came to the question of his overthrow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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