Meaning of Jacobite | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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.”

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