Definitions for jacobinism
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Jac•o•binˈdʒæk ə bɪn(n.)
(in the French Revolution) a member of a radical political club that instituted the Reign of Terror.
Category: Western History
an extreme radical, esp. in politics.
Category: Western History
a Dominican friar.
Category: Religion
Origin of Jacobin:
1275–1325; (def. 3 ) ME Jacobin < OF (frere) jacobin < ML (frater) Jacōbīnus, after the church of Saint-Jacques in Paris, near where a Dominican convent was built (the same locale was a meeting place for the political club)
Jac′o•bin•ism(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
Jacobinism(noun)
the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror
Wiktionary
Jacobinism(Noun)
The principles of the Jacobins; violent opposition to legitimate government.
Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. uE000656702uE001 J. C. Shairp.
Origin: Compare Jacobinisme.
Webster Dictionary
Jacobinism(noun)
the principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government
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