Jacobite
See also: jacobite
English
Etymology
From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) + -ite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
- Hyphenation: Jac‧ob‧ite
Noun
Jacobite (plural Jacobites)
- (historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. [from 17th c.]
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- Among the Jacobites the dismay was great
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- (Christianity, dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. [from 15th c.]
- (Christianity, historical) A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
- 2022, Jerome McGann, Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement, →ISBN, page 189:
- Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions.
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Related terms
- Jacobitism
Translations
supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings
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Syriac Orthodox Christian
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