Jacobinical

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Synonym of radical. broadly
Adjective
  1. 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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