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Jacobite
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jacobite
English
Etymology
From en la Iacobus Jācōbus James -ite, equivalent to en Jacob -ite.
Pronunciation
en /ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
en Jac ob ite
Noun
en historical A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. 17
Among the Jacobites the dismay was great
en 2012 Faramerz Dabhoiwala The Origins of Sex 63 Penguin 2013 In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.
en Christianity dated A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. 15
en Christianity historical A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
en 2022 Jerome McGann Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement 9780226818467 189 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FkR3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA189 Dawson rightly points especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions.
Synonyms
Syrian Christianity en Jacobin
Derived terms
en Jacobitely Jacobitiana Jacobitic Jacobitical Jacobitish
Related terms
en Jacobitism
Translations
supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings
Czech: cs jakobita m
Finnish: fi jakobiitti
French: fr jacobite m f
German: de Jakobite m, de Jakobitin f
Irish: ga Seacaibíteach m
Italian: it giacobita m f
Marathi: mr जॅकोबाइट m
Polish: pl jakobita m-pr
Scottish Gaelic: gd Seumasach m
Spanish: es jacobita m f
Welsh: cy Iacobit m, cy Jacobit m
Syriac Orthodox Christian
Armenian: hy հակոբիկ
Greek: el Ιακωβίτης m
Italian: it giacobita m f
Latin: la Iacobita m f
Polish: pl jakobita m-pr
Spanish: es jacobita m f
en eponyms
en History of the United Kingdom Monarchism