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Definition of Jacobins
1. jacobin [n] - See also: jacobin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jacobins
Literary usage of Jacobins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"The jacobins returned with some prisoners whom they had taken ; the young men
... Several messengers from the jacobins had brought word to the committee of ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"jacobins Immediately now broke out the fierce war betwixt the Mountain and ...
In common with the jacobins, the Girondists had warred upon royalty to its ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"jacobins Immediately now broke out the fierce war betwixt the Mountain and ...
In common with the jacobins, the Girondists had warred upon royalty to its ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1895)
"The jacobins (as since called) yielded to the Feuillants & tried the ...
The jacobins saw this, and that the expunging that officer was of absolute ..."
5. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1895)
"The jacobins (as since called) yielded to the Feuillants & tried the ...
The jacobins saw this, and that the expunging that officer was of absolute ..."
6. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"In like manner, the jacobins,—who had now full possession of the passions and
confidence of the lower orders in France, as well as of all those spirits ..."
7. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of by Thomas Jefferson (1900)
"jacobins, Battle for liberty.— in the struggle which was necessary, many guilty
persons fell without the forms of tria' and with them some innocent. ..."
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