Jacobinical

American  

[ja-kuhb-in-ik-uhl] / ˌdʒæ kəbˈɪn ɪk əl /

adjective

1. History/Historical. of or relating to the Jacobins or their beliefs and practices.

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Example Sentences

The accession of Windham to the Cabinet, in July 1794, had strengthened their influence at Westminster; and incidents which occurred in France during the winter of 1794–5 evinced a decline of Jacobinical enthusiasm.

From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland

The Jacobinical and precipitous assaults of the Non-intrusionists upon the rights of property are summarily put down.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

The pamphlet published in 1797, called "The History of the United States for 1796," and edited by a disreputable man named Callender, was the concentrated essence of Jacobinical fury and vindictiveness against Alexander Hamilton.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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 Rose, John Holland

In 1792, he was chosen a member of the National-Convention, when he adopted the Jacobinical title of Louis-Philippe-Joseph Egalit`e; and, in November 1793, he suffered by the guillotine.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace