Jacobinical
Americanadjective
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For some time this Birmingham machine ran along by our side—a piece of familiarity that already of itself seemed to me sufficiently Jacobinical.
From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by Thomas De Quincey
Mr. Avenel's fingers itched to knock the tinker's villainous hat off his Jacobinical head, but he repressed the undignified impulse by thrusting both hands deep into his trowsers' pockets.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
On what was such conduct founded, but on Jacobinical principles?
From Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 by Sir Edgar R. (Edgar Rees) Jones
They arose from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
He found that their "deadness" proceeded from a rooted distrust of the Emperor Leopold, and from a conviction that Britain had nothing to fear from Jacobinical propaganda.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
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