jacobinical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of Jacobin, of, related to, or characteristic of the Jacobins of France.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "“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.”"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Jacobinical (comparative)
most Jacobinical (superlative)