adj
Meaning 1
Synonym of Jacobin, of, related to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of France.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- 1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797, Her late dangers have arisen [...] from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations.
- 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “A Character,” lines 49-52, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), Coleridge: Poetical Works, Oxford University Press, 1912, p. 452, And though he never left in lurch His King, his country, or his church, ’Twas but to humour his own cynical Contempt of doctrines Jacobinical.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Jacobin, of, related to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of France
Antonyms: none provided