Meaning Of The Word Jacobin
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Jacobin Meaning
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Jacobin in American English
a French Dominican friar: the Dominicans were established in a convent at the Church of St. Jacques in Paris of the Jacobins or their policies noun: a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met Jacobin in British English adjective: of, characteristic of, or relating to the Jacobins or their policies noun: a member of the most radical club founded during the French Revolution, which overthrew the Girondists in 1793 and, led by Robespierre, instituted the Reign of Terror |
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