Jacobitical
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
To mention no more of these absurd Conjectures, I must here inform my Reader, that by the Body of the Ass we intend to figure the whole Body of Jacobitical doctrine.
From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Jackson, Mason
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 Beste, Henry Digby
Of all the counties of England Lancashire was the most Jacobitical.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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