Jacobinical

Jacobinical

English

Adjective

Jacobinical (comparative more Jacobinical, superlative most Jacobinical)

1. (historical) Relating to or characteristic of the Jacobins; politically radical.
   • 1793, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France” in Three memorials on French affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, 1797,

     Her late dangers have arisen […] from her own ill policy, which dismantled all her towns, and discontented all her subjects by Jacobinical innovations.

   • 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “A Character,” lines 49-52, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge (ed.), Coleridge: Poetical Works, Oxford University Press, 1912, p. 452,

     And though he never left in lurch

     His King, his country, or his church,

     ’Twas but to humour his own cynical

     Contempt of doctrines Jacobinical.

   • 1847, Thomas de Quincey, “Schlosser’s Literary History of the Eighteenth Century,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 14, September 1847, p. 576,

     She is always ready for jacobinical scoffs at a man for being a lord, if he happens to fail; she is always ready for toadying a lord, if he happens to make a hit.

   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 10, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], OCLC 84390265:

     “And there must be no letter-scribbling to your cousin Hortense—no intercourse whatever. I do not approve of the principles of the family. They are Jacobinical.”

Related terms

• Jacobinism