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Jacobinism : (noun)
1: the ideology of the most radical element of the French
Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror [syn: Jacobinism]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Jacobinism : \Jac"o*bin*ism\, n. [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.]
The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious
opposition to legitimate government.
Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism
passed towards the opposite, but not very distant,
extreme of Jacobinism. --J. C.
Shairp.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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