Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.
The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.
Alternative letter-case form of Jacobin.
Of or related to the Jacobin Club in France.
From Middle English Jacobin, from Old French jacobin, from Latin Jācōbīnus, from Latin Jācōbus (“James, Jacob, etc.”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from B...
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Of or related to the radical left in other contexts.
[…] Mosse argued the most fascist and totalitarian in particular but also radical Jacobin regimes, continued to have an investment in not merely disciplining human bodies but harnessing their sense of glory toward worshiping themselves […]
Synonym of Dominican, of or related to the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.