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Jacobinical

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Jac·o·bin  (jk-bn)
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 (frter) Jacbnus, Jacobinic brother, from Jacbus, 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.]
Jaco·binic, Jaco·bini·cal adj.
Jaco·bin·ism n.
Jaco·bin·ize (-b-nz) v.
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Adj.1.Jacobinical - of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; "Jacobinic terrorism"
Jacobinic


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With Jacobinical zeal the feds depicted Helmsley as a hateful aristocrat, a super-rich "Queen of Mean" who disdainfully insisted that only "little people" pay taxes.
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