jacobite
/ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
noun
A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
Example Sentences
- "Among the Jacobites the dismay was great"
- "In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners."
- "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."