Meaning of jacobinize | Babel Free

Definitions

To convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government.

derogatory, sometimes, transitive

Examples

“Great efforts will be made to jacobinize Massachusetts, and to elect⟳ Gerry, though many think⟳ Mr. A. will be the jacobin candidate.”

“They assume⟳ an attitude towards the government of distrust, if not of hostility, and exert their influence⟳ to jacobinize the church instead of destroying her, as the revolution would do if it could.”

“Such unwarrantable steps could not make⟳ proselytes of the Catholic military ; it might, in time, make⟳ them indifferent to all forms of worship⟳, and thereby jacobinize them upon the French scale, and, perhaps, in the hour of danger, induce them to forget⟳ their duty and their loyalty, in order⟳ to be revenged of their persecutors.”

“Happily, France was not then Jacobinized.”

“We are threatened by a most unprincipled system of agitation—the Tories actually doing their best to Jacobinize the poor, in the hope⟳ of turning an outbreak against the whig government to their own⟳ advantage.”

“If labourers were barred from pleasures they would Jacobinize the whole country, he declared.”

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