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Jacobins

Jacobins is the plural of Jacobin.

Meaning of Jacobin

Noun

Jacobin (plural Jacobins)

  1. (dated) Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
    Synonyms:
    Dominican
  2. (historical) A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.
    • The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 429–30
  3. (broadly, historical) A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.
  4. (broadly) A leftist radical in other contexts.
  5. (archaic) Synonym of Jacobite, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
    Synonyms:
    Jacobite

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Questions about Jacobins

What is Jacobins the plural of?
Jacobins is the plural of Jacobin.

Words near Jacobins in the dictionary

  1. Jacobinization
  2. jacobinize
  3. jacobinized
  4. jacobinizes
  5. jacobinizing
  6. Jacobins
  7. Jacobis
  8. jacobita
  9. jacobitas
  10. Jacobite
  11. Jacobitely

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