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Jacobinical

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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

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adj

Meaning 2

Synonym of radical.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

Topics: government, politics

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: radical

Antonyms: none provided

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adjective

Meaning 3

of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Jacobinic terrorism

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Jacobinic

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Jacobinic + -al or Jacobin + -ical.