Jacobinism

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jacobinism \Jac"o*bin*ism\, n. [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.]
     The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious
     opposition to legitimate government.
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           Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism


           passed towards the opposite, but not very distant,
           extreme of Jacobinism.                   --J. C.
                                                    Shairp.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Jacobinism
       n : the ideology of the most radical element of the French
           Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror