Jacobean
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- adjective
- /ˌdʒækəˈbiːən/
- The Jacobean and Caroline ecclesiastics, who served themselves of Hooker's great and justly honored reputation, were men of another spirit.
Examples
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In Jacobean England, a spell book recommended that a husband look into his wife's eyes: if he couldn't see his reflection in her pupils, then someone had bewitched her.
Academic text (1995) -
The theater featured a stunning production of a Jacobean play that highlighted the era's unique dramatic themes.
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The two sides of a Jacobean gold angel or touch piece.
Academic text (2011) -
Indeed, in Bartholomew Fair, Jonson anticipates the many ways of misreading available to a Jacobean audience, although perhaps not to our own.
Academic text (2003) -
Metamorphosis, his most defiant work, represents the erudite summation of his interaction with the world while it offers a keen view of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.
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For Jonson, indeed for Jacobean audiences in general, those who entirely lose themselves in the dramatic world deserve our sympathetic laughter, but those who ignorantly deny or condemn the dramatic world, even as they seek to withhold it from others, deserve our harshest censure.
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Her living room was decorated with Jacobean furniture, showcasing the ornate woodwork and stylish design from that period.
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The architecture of the old library, with its Jacobean elements, reflected the grandeur of the early 17th century.
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A Mexican plant that grows from a bulb with one large bright red flower
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Etymology
The word Jacobean comes from the name James, from the Latin form Jacobus, which meant 'of James'. So Jacobean describes the art, writing, and buildings from the time of King James I.