Jacobinism

noun

noun

AU, CA, US, UK /ˈd͡ʒæk.ə.bɪ.nɪ.zəm/

Etymology From Jacobin + -ism, compare French jacobinisme.

France, Historical The principles of the Jacobins; especially the violent opposition to legitimate government.

Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.1879, John Campbell Shairp, chapter 6, in Robert Burns, London: Macmillan, page 143:

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