Jacobinism

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:34:27

Jac"o*bin*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.]

The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.

Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

 

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