Jacobite

plural Jacobites

1. historicalA supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.

   Among the Jacobites the dismay was great

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

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   In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.

   2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63

2. datedChristianityA member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.

   Synonyms: Jacobin

3. historicalChristianityA follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.

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   Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions.

   2022, Jerome McGann, Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement, →ISBN, page 189