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Jacobin

Jacobin

2 9.9
A person who supported violent revolutionary rule during the French Revolution
  • noun
  • /ˈdʒækəˌbɪn/
: jacobino
  • A Lockean revolution leaves the social order intact, whereas a Jacobin revolution aims at a root-and-branch transformation.
  • Jacobin tradition

One of them, Olympic Ghuge manages to get herself killed by, by the Jacobins for this.

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Examples

  • The rise of the Jacobin movement fundamentally changed the political landscape of France during the revolutionary period.

  • It finally got him to come to the Jacobin Club and to go the convention.

  • Such Jacobin policies result in the dwarfing of civil society and everything associated with it, including religion.

    Academic text (2000)

  • This time, the Jacobin deputies are present and they're not happy at being excluded from the previous day's meeting.

  • The portrait represents Cabarrus's imprisonment two years earlier by the radical Jacobin government.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Soon after the coup, he was accused in the Jacobin Club of counterrevolutionary tendencies.

    Academic text (2011)

  • In Lippmann's view, it was the Jacobin followers of Rousseau who posed the most serious threat to constitutional government.

    Academic text (2001)

  • This would deprive the radical Jacobins of the Parisian mob, their strongest pillar, and left them isolated against the troops loyal to Napoleon.

  • During the Reign of Terror, a Jacobin was often seen fervently advocating for extreme measures against perceived enemies of the state.

  • Many historians agree that the Jacobin Club played a crucial role in implementing radical changes during the French Revolution.

Antonyms

conservative
∞ 4.6

Does not want big changes and likes traditional values

moderate
114 4.6

A person with political views that are not extreme

Surface Forms

Jacobin singular
Jacobins plural

Etymology

Jacobin comes from a Paris meeting place: a Dominican convent called Saint-Jacques, which is French for 'Saint James'. The group that met there became known as the Jacobins, and because they were very radical during the French Revolution, Jacobin now means someone with extreme political views.