anti-Jacobinadj.n.
A. adj.
Opposed to the Jacobins, one of the revolutionary parties in France in 1789; hence, opposed to the French Revolution, and to those who sympathized with it, or with democratic principles, who were nicknamed Jacobins by the partisans of Mr. Pitt's administration.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [adjective] > relating to or supporting specific principles
Jacobinic1793
Jacobinical1793
Jacobin1795
anti-Jacobin1809
Orleanist1845
neo-Gaullist1956
1809 Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 93/1 The loudest of those anti-jacobin declaimers.
B. n.
One opposed to the Jacobins, etc.; also name of a weekly paper started in 1797 in hostility to the French Revolution and democratic principles.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > moderatism > other opposed to extremism
anti-Jacobin1826
weaker brethren1882
society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > titles of newspapers
observator1642
mercury1643
post1645
examiner1710
echo1729
times1788
mail1789
messenger1796
thunderer1830
anti-Jacobin1867
Trib1878
Nikkei1982
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) 2nd Ser. 331 How my friend the cobbler came to be..so violent an Anti-jacobin.
1834 Macaulay William Pitt in Biogr. (1860) 201 Eager and intolerant Anti-jacobins.
1867 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 63 The neglect into which the wit and wisdom of the Anti-Jacobin have fallen.
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