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Meanings of jacobins in English
The most radical group in the French Revolution.
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Examples for "jacobin"
Examples for "jacobin"
1
An old jacobin, when he heard the news, exclaimed, So much the better!
2
Emperor and king, jacobin and carbonaro, alike cherished him.
3
He was full of the tenets of the Jacobin and Cordelian Clubs.
4
His voice shook with fury, but the Jacobin took it for enthusiasm.
5
He also utterly abhorred the despotism of vulgar, violent, sanguinary Jacobin misrule.
1
He was a young advocate, and a member of the Jacobin Club.
2
This we see especially in the Jacobin Club, which was dominated by Robespierre.
3
The duc d'Orléans was admitted a member of the Jacobin Club.
4
He was one of the leading men at that Jacobin Club.
5
The original model was apparently the Jacobin club of Paris.
Usage of jacobins in English
1
Long after, when political strife was running high, Adams said, Washington appointed a multitude of democrats and jacobins of the deepest die.
2
Yet the Jacobins had in their hands all the elements of success.
3
When the Houses met in December, the Jacobins found their position revolutionized.
4
By terrorising the population the Jacobins contrived to triumph at the elections.
5
But out friends await us in the glorious club of the Jacobins.
6
The Convention, the Commune, the Executive Council, and the Jacobins were sitting.
7
The Jacobins were idealists; there was about this man a murderous materialism.
8
He had interposed to save them from the fury of the Jacobins.
9
The Girondins had always been objects of jealous rivalry to the Jacobins.
10
These imputations and grievances of the Jacobins are not altogether without foundation.
11
To effect their overthrow the Girondins and Jacobins united, and were successful.
12
They are Conservatives pretending to be Jacobins but in fact being Conservatives.
13
The French Jacobins were a minority but they swept all before them.
14
I stand well with the National Assembly, except a few disreputable Jacobins.
15
Nevertheless, the resourceful Jacobins found a way to begin their new campaign.
16
We have a little club there- asortof succursal to the Jacobins.
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