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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