Jacobinism

American  

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

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• Jacobinist noun
• Jacobinistic adjective
• anti-Jacobinism noun

Example Sentences

Whatever else might be said of events in places like Portland or Seattle, it is not the storming of the Bastille, and wokeness isn’t Jacobinism — at least not yet.

From New York Times

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

A preference for judicial Jacobinism would, indeed, put him outside the mainstream.

From Washington Post

These have ranged from absolutism, through Jacobinism, Napoleonic tyranny, Hitler, Soviet communism, to the well-meaning but broken-backed European Union today.

From Time

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