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Jacobinisms

Jacobinisms is the plural of Jacobinism.

Meaning of Jacobinism

Noun

Jacobinism (countable and uncountable, plural Jacobinisms)

  1. (France, historical) The principles of the Jacobins; especially the violent opposition to legitimate government.
    • Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.1879, John Campbell Shairp, chapter 6, in Robert Burns, London: Macmillan, page 143

Questions about Jacobinisms

What is Jacobinisms the plural of?
Jacobinisms is the plural of Jacobinism.

Words near Jacobinisms in the dictionary

  1. jacobinise
  2. jacobinised
  3. jacobinises
  4. jacobinising
  5. Jacobinism
  6. Jacobinisms
  7. Jacobinization
  8. jacobinize
  9. jacobinized
  10. jacobinizes
  11. jacobinizing

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