Jacobinism

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Australia, Canada, US, UK/ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zəm/Australia, Canada, US, UK[ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zm̩]

noun

The principles of the Jacobins; especially the violent opposition to legitimate government.

OriginFrench jacobinisme →
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Meanings

nounJacobinism (countable and uncountable, plural Jacobinisms)

plural Jacobinisms

  1. FrancecountablehistoricaluncountableThe principles of the Jacobins; especially the violent opposition to legitimate government.

    Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.

    1879, John Campbell Shairp, chapter 6, in Robert Burns, London: Macmillan, page 143

Origin

  1. Frenchjacobinisme
  2. EnglishJacobinism

From Jacobin + -ism, compare French jacobinisme.

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