Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles of the Jacobins; unreasonable or violent opposition to orderly government.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
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- noun The
principles of theJacobins ;violent opposition tolegitimate government .
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- noun the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have called Jacobinism, resulting from the effects of a Western education that has been unable to penetrate harmoniously the complicated structure of Chinese character.
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His silence in the face of melting icecaps and inundated cities created - exactly as he knew it would - the kind of dissonance that whipped the nation into the frenzy of environmental "Jacobinism" that characterized the 2010s.
Born on the Sixth of July: Celebrating George Bush's Secret Presidential Life 2006
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His policy was modelled upon the worst of the panic-bred measures by means of which Pitt and his colleagues were seeking to suppress "Jacobinism" in England.
A History of the United States Cecil Chesterton 1898
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Hamilton begins his defense by decrying the scandal itself, with much denouncing of "Jacobinism" the Jacobins, in France, were fresh in everyone's mind from the disastrous end to the French Revolution -- which was only a few years in the past, when Hamilton wrote this pamphlet.
Chris Weigant: America's First Political Sex Scandal: The Reynolds/Hamilton Affair Chris Weigant 2011
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinism, [Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism] x
Chronological List 2010
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinism, [Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism] x
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du Jacobinism, [Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism]
Chronological List 2010
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This odd mix of Tea Party Jacobinism and feminist grievance has become Palin's operating style.
Palin's erratic behavior mars 2010 elections Michael Gerson 2010
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Timothy Dwight, the fervently reactionary and comically pompous head of Yale University, was a strong Federalist supporter who predicted that the accession of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency would lead to "a frenzied dance of Jacobinism."
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Jacobinism -- the doctrine of the ultra-radical and anticlerical wing of the French revolutionary movement -- was as much of an ogre to eighteenth and nineteenth century conservatives as socialism and communism were their latter-day counterparts.
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