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Jacobite

Noun CEFR B2
ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt

Definitions

  1. A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
  2. A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.
  3. A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.

Equivalents

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العربيةيعقوبي
Češtinajakobita
GàidhligSeumasach
Հայերենհակոբիկ
Italianogiacobita
Polskijakobita

Examples

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.”

CEFR level

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