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Jacobite
//ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt// noun
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Noun
- 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 a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts wordnet
- 3 A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. dated
- 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."
Etymology
From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) + -ite, equivalent to Jacob + -ite.
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