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Definition of Jacobinism
1. Noun. The ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror.
Definition of Jacobinism
1. n. The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
Definition of Jacobinism
1. Noun. The principles of the Jacobins; violent opposition to legitimate government. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacobinism
Literary usage of Jacobinism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of John Aikin: M. D. by John Aikin, Lucy Aikin (1824)
"REMARKS ON THE CHARGE OF Jacobinism. IT has at all times been so common an artifice
of party to stigmatise its adversaries by some opprobrious name, ..."
2. The New Politics by Frank Buffington Vrooman (1911)
"CHAPTER VI SPIRIT OF Jacobinism It was the American Revolution, not the French
Revolution, if it was a revolution at all, which was the beginning of modern ..."
3. The Resources of the British Empire, Together with a View of the Propable by John Bristed (1811)
"Jacobinism first taught its votaries, primarily in France, and then in the ...
The fire of jacobinism had long been pent up in the bowels of continental ..."
4. Burke, Select Works by Edmund Burke (1881)
"These formulas constitute the creed of Jacobinism in its simplest and rudest
form, the sentimental antagonism of poverty against wealth. ..."
5. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"... things to prove that he is resolved to adhere to and cultivate his old party,
who lately, more than ever, have shown the cloven foot of rank Jacobinism. ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"... ie Memoirs illustrating the History of Jacobinism. By the Abbe BARRUEL.
IVth Part. 3vo. pp. 620. Dulau and Co. De Boffe, &c. London. ..."
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