JACOBIN


Meaning of JACOBIN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈja-kə-bən ]

noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French jacopin, from Medieval Latin Jacobinus, from Late Latin Jacobus (Saint James); from the location of the first Dominican convent in the street of Saint James, Paris

Date: 14th century

1. : Dominican

2.

[French, from Jacobin Dominican; from the group's founding in the Dominican convent in Paris]

: a member of an extremist or radical political group ; especially : a member of such a group advocating egalitarian democracy and engaging in terrorist activities during the French Revolution of 1789

• Jac·o·bin·ic ˌja-kə-ˈbi-nik or Jac·o·bin·i·cal -ni-kəl adjective

• Jac·o·bin·ism ˈja-kə-bə-ˌni-zəm noun

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