Jacobinical
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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In La Vendée, one of the departments of France, an insurrection broke out against the Jacobinical government, in 1793.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
Lady Hamilton asserted that the stories were all falsehoods invented by the Jacobinical party, but her Ladyship's veracity was never to be relied upon.
From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter
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 De Quincey, Thomas
Finally he proposed the distinctly Jacobinical toast, "Our Sovereign, the Majesty of the People."
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
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
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