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Jacobin

[ US /ˈdʒækəbən, ˈdʒækəbɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

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  • He was at that time "a vehement anti-ministerialist," but, after the invasion of Switzerland, a more vehement anti-Gallican, and still more intensely an anti-Jacobin: The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
  • And although American and British ideas of constitutional government dominated the first stage of the French Revolution, the constitutionalists were soon swept aside by the dictatorship of the Jacobin club.
  • Resolutely accentualist in his outlook, he argued in a series of ‘Letters,’ that trisyllabic feet, whether dactylic or anapaestic, are fully congenial to English, ‘in spite of the Antijacobin’.
  • It was the proudest and most untractable of the Jacobins who acclaimed ‎ Bonaparte with greatest energy when he suppressed all liberty and made his hand of iron ‎ severely felt. Democracy R.I.P
  • The logic was Jacobin, the authority deriving from a perceived mandate to recast time-honored practices.
  • This particular 'Fall of the Rate of Profit' is prophetic, as it marks the LAST; it is the launching of years of planning 'THE FINAL SOLUTION' to 'THE HUMAN PROBLEM' by capital and its allied agents from the past: the bourgeoisie AND the role-ified proletarian; the globalist banking elite; the exclusionary cartelist, cabalist, and cultist; the theocrat and tribalist, esp. from the Middle Eastern triad based in desert [ed] visions; the Fabian / Jacobin Latest posts @WeBlog.ro
  • Jacobinism -- the doctrine of the ultra-radical and anticlerical wing of the French revolutionary movement -- was as much of an ogre to eighteenth and nineteenth century conservatives as socialism and communism were their latter-day counterparts. Lerdo de Tejada: Jacobin to liberal elitist
  • By this time he had decided to act, and doubtless the fervid Jacobinism of the soldiery was the chief cause determining his action. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
  • Robespierre had to make his speeches in the Jacobin Club, as he was not eligible for election to the Assembly.
  • Higonnet suggests that in the pursuit of universalist fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost its original libertarian meaning and that Jacobinism became a kind of sectarian religion as it moved from sensibility to ideology.
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