antijacobin

noun

antijacobin

noun

Etymology From anti- + Jacobin, after the model of earlier French antijacobin.

1

Historical A political opponent of the Jacobins.

For Pantisocracy he once had cried Aloud, a scheme less moral than ’twas clever— Then turned a hearty Antijacobin— Had turned his coat—& would have turned his skin.1822, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement, stanza 97:

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