Jacobin
pronunciation
How to pronounce Jacobin in British English:
UK [ˈdʒækəbin]
How to pronounce Jacobin in American English:
US [ˈdʒækəbɪn]
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- Noun:
- a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
Word Origin
- Jacobin
- early 14c., in reference to an order of Dominican friars, from Old French Jacobin (13c.) "Dominican friar" (also, in the Middle East, "a Copt"); so called because the order built its first convent near the church of Saint-Jacques in Paris (the masc. proper name Jacques is from Late Latin Iacobus; see Jacob). The Revolutionary extremists made their club headquarters there October 1789 and supported Robespierre during the Terror. It was suppressed in November 1794. In English, used generically of radicals and allegedly radical reformers since 1793. Related: Jacobinism.
Example
- 1. English jacobin novel on rights , property and the law .
- 2. At first , he hoped that this buonapartist , this jacobin , this terrorist , this septembrist , would return .
- 3. Not your little jacobin ?
- 4. Madame defarge returned to her counter to get the wine , and , as he took up a jacobin journal and feigned to pore over it puzzling out its meaning , he heard her say , " I swear to you , like evremonde ! "