Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
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ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt
Noun
A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
Usage- Historical
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Among the Jacobites the dismay was great
In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.
A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.
Usage- Dated
A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
Usage- Historical
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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.
Noun
a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts