Definition of Jacqueries

1. Noun. (plural of jacquerie) ¹

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Definition of Jacqueries

1. jacquerie [n] - See also: jacquerie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacqueries

jacobinizes
jacobinizing
jacobins
jacobite
jacobsite
jacobsites
jacobus
jacobuses
jaconet
jaconets
jacquard
jacquards
jacqueminot
jacqueminots
jacquerie
jacqueries (current term)
jacquesdietrichite
jactancy
jactation
jactations
jactitate
jactitation
jactitations
jaculate
jaculated
jaculates
jaculating
jaculation
jaculations
jaculator

Literary usage of Jacqueries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ... The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1878)
"Preparations for other jacqueries. I. (HOWEVER bad a particular government maybe, there is something stm worse, and that is the suppression of all ..."

2. The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine (1885)
"—jacqueries, effective confiscations and proclamation of ihe socialistic creed. —Indirect attacks.—Bad administration of the public funds. ..."

3. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. It is this peril, possibly imminent towards the close of the eighteenth century, which the French Revolution, ..."

4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Taine has calculated that from July 1789 until the dissolution of the constituent assembly no less than five jacqueries, involving the eruption of several ..."

5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"Brought about pacifically, without the aid of jacqueries and popular uprisings the reform was effected with the consent of all parties interested, ..."

6. Forty Years of Diplomacy by Roman Romanovich Rosen (1922)
"It had led to " jacqueries," murders, burnings of country mansions, ... Russia's Ruin: We have seen since then what both the jacqueries and the Soviet ..."

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