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Jacobinism

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[ja-kuh-buhn-i-zuhm] / ˈdʒæ kə bənˌɪ zəm /

noun

  1. History/Historical. the beliefs or practices of the Jacobins.


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The specter of Jacobinism — of the guillotine and the mobs at the Bastille — haunts Britain’s rulers, from the prince regent to the owners of Manchester’s factories.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2019

Islam is not susceptible to the control of the regime in the way that Jacobinism and Marxism were – it is an independent standard, which is ultimately beyond the reach of the regime.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2013

Islam is a more serious idea than Jacobinism or Marxism: it is more embedded in people’s lives than those political ideas ever became; in the cultural/intellectual race, it has longer legs.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2013

French ecclesiastics, to whom democracy meant Jacobinism and anticlericalism, were especially outraged.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jacobinism, on the other hand, was always an exotic.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir