Jacobin Definition

jăkə-bĭn
noun
An extreme political radical.
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A French Dominican friar: the Dominicans were established in a convent at the Church of St. Jacques in Paris.
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Any member of a society of radical democrats in France during the Revolution of 1789: their meetings were held in the Jacobin friars' convent.
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adjective
Of the Jacobins or their policies.
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Other Word Forms of Jacobin

Noun

Singular:
Jacobin
Plural:
jacobins

Origin of Jacobin

  • Middle English Dominican friar from French from Old French (frere) jacobin (translation of Medieval Latin (frāter) Iacōbīnus Jacobinic brother) (from Iacōbus James) (after the church of Saint Jacques in Paris, near which the friars built their first convent) Sense 2, from the fact that the Jacobins first met in the convent

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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