Jacobinical
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of Jacobin, of, related to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of France. historical
"1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797, Her late dangers have arisen […] from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations."
- 2 Synonym of radical. broadly
- 1 of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution wordnet
Example
More examples"1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797, Her late dangers have arisen […] from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations."
Etymology
From Jacobinic + -al or Jacobin + -ical.
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