Jacobitism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Even grave Whig statesmen like the Lord President Forbes were disturbed by the enthusiastic Jacobitism that possessed all the Scotch ladies.
From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
He retired to Bucklebury and is said to have now written the answer to the Secret History of the White Staff accusing him of Jacobitism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
That branch of Oglethorpes thus became connected with the royal family, which would go far towards rousing their hereditary Jacobitism when the Forty-Five cast its shadow before.
From Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
Under this new stimulus, Burns's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
The wildest charges of Jacobitism were brought against the immediate servants of the Princess, charges which those who made them wholly failed to substantiate.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
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