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jacobinism
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Jacobinism \Jac"o*bin*ism\, n. [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.]
The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious
opposition to legitimate government.
[1913 Webster]
Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism
passed towards the opposite, but not very distant,
extreme of Jacobinism. --J. C.
Shairp.
[1913 Webster]
