jacobin

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1. jacobin - Noun

2. jacobin - Adjective

Meaning

A Dominican friar; -- so named because, before the French Revolution, that order had a convent in the Rue St. Jacques, Paris.

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.

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.

Same as Jacobinic.

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There exists in our country a solid continuity of Bonapartism, where the vocation for grandeur of France, the monarchist tradition, and the passion for national unity, the Jacobin tradition get together. François Mitterrand

Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility. Naomi Novik

Conservatives castigated every radical opinion in Britain as "Jacobin" (in reference to the leaders of the Terror ), warning that radicalism threatened an upheaval of British society. Source: Internet

A third group chooses to highlight the regime’s revolutionary, Jacobin and dictatorial nature. Source: Internet

Because of this fear, several other legislations passed which furthered the Jacobin domination of the Revolution. Source: Internet

Napoleon returned on leave to Ajaccio in October, became a Jacobin and began to work for the revolution. Source: Internet

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