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jacobinical
adj 2
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3ADJ.
ready
JACOBINICAL + NOUN
scoffs
ADV.
always
Definitions
adj
1
Synonym of 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.
2
Synonym of radical.
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adjective — of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution
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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 il
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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 Ki
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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.
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