Antijacobin

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A political opponent of the Jacobins. historical

    "For Pantisocracy he once had cried Aloud, a scheme less moral than ’twas clever— Then turned a hearty Antijacobin— Had turned his coat—& would have turned his skin."

Example

More examples

"For Pantisocracy he once had cried Aloud, a scheme less moral than ’twas clever— Then turned a hearty Antijacobin— Had turned his coat—& would have turned his skin."

Etymology

From anti- + Jacobin, after the model of earlier French antijacobin.

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