Jacobinicaladj.
/ˌdʒakəˈbɪnᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌdʒækəˈbɪnᵻk(ə)l/ = Jacobinic adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [adjective] > relating to or supporting specific principles
Jacobinic1793
Jacobinical1793
Jacobin1795
anti-Jacobin1809
Orleanist1845
neo-Gaullist1956
1793 F. Burney Lett. to Dr. Burney 19 Feb. Perhaps all may be Jacobinical malignity.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) i. 68 Trowsers or gaiters..he described as Jacobinical.
1871 J. Morley Condorcet in Crit. Misc. 62 Reason like Condorcet's, streaked with jacobinical fibre.
Derivatives
Jacoˈbinically adv.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [adverb] > in Jacobin manner
Jacobinically1821
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 752 Patting them on their heads (rather jacobinically greasy for our taste).
1887 Daily News 28 June 5/1 The present House of Commons has no ‘mandate’, as Lord Salisbury Jacobinically calls it, to coerce Ireland.
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adj.1793