Jacobinism
Americannoun
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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 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
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
Not just God, but belief itself seems to be dying, suggests Nourissier: there is a miasma of decaying faiths, whether in Jacobinism or in the church, that leaves the air redolent with cynicism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fox discountenanced it, though he did not directly condemn it; but Grey was overborne by the fierce Jacobinism of Lauderdale, and avowed himself the parliamentary mouthpiece of this dangerous 587 agitation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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