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Jacobinical

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution.  Synonym: Jacobinic.






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"Jacobinical" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the house where you lodge, the mother is sure to recollect some addition to her bill. It is a running fight. In fact, there is a principle in human nature not willingly to endure the idea of a superior, a sour, jacobinical disposition to wipe out the score of obligation, or efface the tinsel of external advantages—and where others have the opportunity of coming in contact with us, they generally find the means to establish a sufficiently marked degree of degrading equality. No man is a hero to his ...
— Table-Talk - Essays on Men and Manners • William Hazlitt

... committed on the stocks. And on the Sunday morning, Mr. Stirn, who was the earliest riser in the parish, perceived, in going to the farm-yard, that the knob of the column that flanked the board had been feloniously broken off; that the four holes were bunged up with mud; and that some jacobinical villain had carved, on the very centre of the flourished or scroll work, "Dam the stoks!" Mr. Stirn was much too vigilant a right-hand man, much too zealous a friend of law and order, not to regard such proceedings with horror and ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various



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