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Jacobinic

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Adjective

1. jacobinic, jacobinical

of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution

Example Sentences:
'Jacobinic terrorism'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jacobinic

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noun
1. 
a member of the most radical club founded during the French Revolution, which overthrew the Girondists in 1793 and, led by Robespierre, instituted the Reign of Terror
2. 
a leftist or extreme political radical
3. 
a French Dominican friar
4. (sometimes not capital)
a variety of fancy pigeon with a hood of feathers swept up over and around the head
adjective
5. 
of, characteristic of, or relating to the Jacobins or their policies

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Jacobinic

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noun
1. 
a French Dominican friar: the Dominicans were established in a convent at the Church of St. Jacques in Paris
2. 
any member of a society of radical democrats in France during the Revolution of 1789: their meetings were held in the Jacobin friars' convent
3. 
an extreme political radical
adjective
4. 
of the Jacobins or their policies
: also ˌJacoˈbinic, ˌJacoˈbinical

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Jacobinic

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n.
1. A radical or extreme leftist.
2. A radical republican during the French Revolution.
3. A Dominican friar.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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