Jac·o·bin (j k  -b n)n. 1. A radical or extreme leftist. 2. A radical republican during the French Revolution. 3. A Dominican friar. [Middle English, Dominican friar, from French, from Old French (frere) jacobin (translation of Medieval Latin (fr  ter) Iac b nus, Jacobinic brother, from Iacbus, 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.]Jac  o·binic, Jaco·bini·cal adj.Jac o·bin·ism n.Jac o·bin·ize (-b-nz) v. |
Jacobinism
the practices of the Jacobins, a political group advocating equalitarian democracy during the French Revolution. — Jacobin, n. — Jacobinic, adj.
See also: Politics
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| Noun | 1. | Jacobinism - the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror radicalism - the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society |
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