Jacobinism

//ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The principles of the Jacobins; violent opposition to legitimate government. countable, uncountable

    "Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism."

  2. 2
    the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror wordnet

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anarchismextremismmaoismnew leftnihilismradicalism

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"Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism."

Etymology

From Jacobin + -ism, compare French jacobinisme.

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