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JACOBIN
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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:
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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