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Jacobinical
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English
Etymology
From en Jacobinic -al or en Jacobin -ical.
Adjective
en historical en Jacobin, of, related to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of France.
1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797,
Her late dangers have arisen from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations.
1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “A Character,” lines 49-52, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), Coleridge: Poetical Works, Oxford University Press, 1912, p.452,
And though he never left in lurch
His King, his country, or his church,
’Twas but to humour his own cynical
Contempt of doctrines Jacobinical.
en 1847 w:Thomas de Quincey Schlosser’s Literary History of the Eighteenth Century Tait's Edinburgh Magazine Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 14 September https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000637380 576 She is always ready for jacobinical scoffs at a man for being a lord, if he happens to fail; she is always ready for toadying a lord, if he happens to make a hit.
I 249 “And there must be no letter-scribbling to your cousin Hortense: no intercourse whatever. I do not approve of the principles of the family; they are Jacobinical.”
en politics by extension en radical.
Derived terms
en Jacobinically