Jacobitical
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I used to enter, with some little feeling of Jacobitical enthusiasm, the house of the Marquise D. which he had inhabited.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
The Captain was at the head of a most heinous Jacobitical uprising.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Oxford, when Johnson resided there, was the most Jacobitical place in England; and Pembroke was one of the most Jacobital colleges in Oxford.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Of all the great towns of England Norwich was the most Jacobitical.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Her hours, then, were not spent in solitude, but in listening to the addresses of some desperate agent of Jacobitical treason, who was a secret resident within the mansion of her uncle!
From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
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