Definitions for jacobins

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jacobins Jac·o·bin

Spelling: [jak-uh-bin]

IPA: /ˈdʒæk ə bɪn/

Jacobins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in jacobins (abcijnos).

Definitions for jacobins

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 jacobins

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

Examples for jacobins

It is the old lesson of the Girondins and jacobins over again.

He went to the jacobins to read over again his speech of the day.

In April–May 1794 the collapse of the jacobins seemed imminent.

(11th of May 1796), in which jacobins and socialists were combined.

You know these jacobins, these patriots, all variste's crew.

It was at first supposed that the jacobins were the authors of this infamous plot.

Under its influence none but jacobins were elected in the capital.

The jacobins had reckoned on making the massacre universal over France.

It is a noble edifice, and once belonged to the Order of jacobins.

Many targets will settle because their attorneys will advise them that their juries will likely be stocked with jacobins.