Jacobite

//ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. historical

    "Among the Jacobites the dismay was great"

  2. 2
    a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts wordnet
  3. 3
    A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. dated
  4. 4
    A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist. historical

    "Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions."

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"Ask your own conscience, Sir William, what has prompted you to become a renegade to your political party and opinions, and led you, for what I know, to be on the point of marrying your only daughter to a beggarly Jacobite bankrupt, the inveterate enemy of your family to the boot."

Etymology

From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) + -ite, equivalent to Jacob + -ite.

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