Jacobin — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Synonym of Dominican, a member of the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.

   Usage

   • Dated

2. A member of the Jacobin Club, a radical political club prominent during the French Revolution.

   Usage

   • Historical

   Related words

   JacobeanJacobianJacobicJacobineJacobiteJacobiticJacobiticalJacobitish

   Examples

   The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.

3. A sympathizer or supposed sympathizer with the French political club or its aims of democracy and social equality.

   Usage

   • broadly
   • Historical

4. A leftist radical in other contexts.

   Usage

   • broadly

5. Synonym of Jacobite, a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

   Usage

   • Archaic

Adjective

1. Of or related to the Jacobin Club in France.

   Usage

   • Historical
   • not-comparable

2. Of or related to the radical left in other contexts.

   Usage

   • broadly
   • not-comparable

   Examples

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   […] Mosse argued the most fascist and totalitarian in particular but also radical Jacobin regimes, continued to have an investment in not merely disciplining human bodies but harnessing their sense of glory toward worshiping themselves […]

3. Synonym of Dominican, of or related to the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.

   Usage

   • Dated
   • not-comparable

4. Synonym of Jacobite, of or related to the Syriac Orthodox Church.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • not-comparable

Noun

1. a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

   Broader terms

   terrorist