Jacobean
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- noun
- /ˌdʒækəˈbiːən/
- You must have read something in all of them, so as to fling their names about, but you can be quite ignorant of at least three and still do very nicely. "Which three are you ignorant of?" said Janet. "The moderns, the whole of the twelfth century, and the Jacobeans," said her father.
Examples
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Art historians often study the Jacobean period to understand the cultural shifts of early 17th century England.
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"Why does he like the Jacobeans?" p128
Fiction book (1991) -
Jacobean?
Academic text (2010) -
Shakespeare and other Jacobeans most likely did not call these phrases oxymora.
Academic text (2005) -
I'll go through slowly so you can read all the topics, talks about Jacobeans, the beta and gamma functions, Euler's constant.
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I haven't read everybody in between—and neither has Daddy; he missed the Jacobeans—but even I can see the resemblance. "Say me some Keats, then," Janet looked at him with a certain alarm.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Jacobean playwrights created some of the most compelling dramas of their time.
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During the Jacobean era, many influential writers emerged, including Shakespeare and Jonson.
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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 and the Latin Jacobus, meaning 'of James', so a Jacobean is a person who belonged to or had a role in the time of King James I.