Crossword clues for jacobinism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jacobinism \Jac"o*bin*ism\, n. [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.] The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism
passed towards the opposite, but not very distant,
extreme of Jacobinism.
--J. C.
Shairp.
Usage examples of "jacobinism".
He claimed to have created a Russian Jacobinism and yet only borrowed from the Jacobins their technique of action, since he, too, denied every principle and every virtue.
To demonstrate her impeccable Jacobinism, Charlotte, in response to his request to name the plotters, recited a comprehensive list.
From Panchaud in Paris he had learned the importance of its liberation, and one of the aspects of Jacobinism he most detested was its irrational hatred of the money market.
By 1794 this number had grown to a thousand, and Jacobinism had become a creed.
Pitt and the resurrection of Lord Grey: but, ever on the watch for a cry to carry them into power, they mistook the yell of Jacobinism for the chorus of an emancipated people, and fancied, in order to take the throne by storm, that nothing was wanting but to hoist the tricolour and to cover their haughty brows with a red cap.
From that period till 1830, the tactics of the Whigs consisted in gently and gradually extricating themselves from their false position as the disciples of Jacobinism, and assuming their ancient post as the hereditary guardians of an hereditary monarchy.
But we can say, at least, that the Reformation prepares the way for Jacobinism and in one sense initiates the reforms that 1789 carries out.
I had seen him in London after his return from Scotland, where he had been reinstated in the family estates, which had been confiscated for Jacobinism.
In the evening, in his saber and plume, he harangues the popular club, blowing into a flame the smoldering embers of Jacobinism.