Jacobite
noun/ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
Etymology From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) + -ite, equivalent to Jacob + -ite.
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Historical A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
- Among the Jacobites the dismay was great1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63:
2
Christianity Dated A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.
3
Christianity Historical A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
- Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions.2022, Jerome McGann, Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement, →ISBN, page 189:
- Synonyms
- Jacobin
- Related terms
- Jacobitism