JACOBIN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Jacobin" is a kind of...):

terrorist (a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities)

Derivation:

Jacobinic; Jacobinical (of or relating to the Jacobins of the French Revolution)

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