Definitions for Jacobin

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Jacobin Jac·o·bin

Spelling: [jak-uh-bin]

IPA: /ˈdʒæk ə bɪn/

Jacobin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in Jacobin (abcijno).

Definitions for Jacobin

noun

1. (in the French Revolution) a member of a radical society or club of revolutionaries that promoted the Reign of Terror and other extreme measures, active chiefly from 1789 to 1794: so called from the Dominican convent in Paris, where they originally met.
2. an extreme radical, especially in politics.
3. a Dominican friar.
4. (lowercase) one of a fancy breed of domestic pigeons having neck feathers that hang over the head like a hood.

Origin of Jacobin

1275-1325; Middle English Jacobin Old French (frere) jacobin Medieval Latin (frater) Jacōbinus. See Jacob, -in¹

Examples for Jacobin

There was a chance that he could have been arrested as well for his Jacobin tendencies.

The reformed Commune at once closed all clubs that were not Jacobin.

On Park Avenue, beards are about as rare as readers of Jacobin.

In Mlle. Crepeneau's mind, a Jacobin was capable of any thing.

The Jacobin yoke could be borne, not the yoke of the émigrés.

The violences of the Revolution drove him into opposition to the Jacobin party.

The Turkish history of imposed Jacobin Secularism ended up creating virtual segregation against observant Muslims.

To-morrow, there will be one Jacobin less, and one lost soul the more.

The meditated slaughter was already announced by Chalier to the Jacobin club.

Emperor and king, Jacobin and carbonaro, alike cherished him.