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Meaning of jacobinise | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Jacobinize.

UK, alt-of, nonstandard

Equivalents

Français jacobinisé

Examples

“It is said now to be the plan of the jacobins 'to affect great zeal for orthodoxy;' but will the bishop, who is strictly orthodox, say that this is likely to jacobinise the world?”
“He contended that a Reform of Parliament had long been the pretext of those clubs and societies, but never any thing but a pretext, to cover their treasonable and seditious intentions, and they had found it a successful one, when their views were to destroy men or establish systems: and their wish now clearly was to Jacobinise this country, and introduce the fatal systems which had ruined France.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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