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Jacobin definition

jăkə-bĭn
A radical or extreme leftist.
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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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An extreme political radical.
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A Dominican friar.
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Of the Jacobins or their policies.
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A radical republican during the French Revolution.
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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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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

Jacobin Sentence Examples

  • He presented a famous report in the Constituent Assembly on the organization of the army, but is better known by his eloquent speech on the 28th of February 1791, at the Jacobin Club, against Mirabeau, whose relations with the court were beginning to be suspected, and who was a personal enemy of Lameth.

  • Famous for his speeches at the Jacobin club, he was elected a member of the municipality of Paris, then of the Legislative Assembly, and later of the National Convention.

  • This expriest, this disillusioned Jacobin and skilful spinner of cobweb constitutions, enjoyed for a time the chief reputation in France.

  • His oracular reserve, personal honesty and consistency of aim had gained him the suffrages of all who hoped to save France from the harpies of the Directory and the violent rhetoricians of the now reconstituted Jacobin Club.

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