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noun ˈdʒakəbʌɪtˈdʒækəˌbaɪt A supporter of the deposed James II and his descendants in their claim to the British throne after the Revolution of 1688. Drawing most of their support from Catholic clans of the Scottish Highlands, Jacobites made attempts to regain the throne in 1689–90, 1715, 1719, and 1745–6, finally being defeated at the Battle of Culloden. Example sentencesExamples - Peter Watkins' Culloden was a powerful recreation of the massacre of the Jacobites at the hands of the English in 1746, and the subsequent ransacking of the Highlands.
- Beatrix and her brother Frank, now the fifth viscount, are ardent Jacobites, and Esmond becomes involved with them in a plot to restore James Edward Stuart, the old pretender, to the throne on the death of Queen Anne.
- The court party retorted that the country party members were either secret Jacobites or self-seeking careerists, making trouble for their own ends.
- She was named after Prince Charlie and was a great Jacobite, of which I'm very proud.
- The Settler was an unreconstructed Jacobite who fled to Maryland in the dark days following the Glorious Revolution.
adjective ˈdʒakəbʌɪtˈdʒækəˌbaɪt Relating to or denoting supporters of the deposed James II and his descendants in their claim to the British throne after the Revolution of 1688.
Derivatives adjective dʒakəˈbɪtɪk(ə)lˌdʒækəˈbɪdək(ə)l Mr. Balfour first called on me late one morning in October of 1719, a year of much turmoil upon this island-the nation lived in constant fear of the French and their support for the heir to the deposed King James, whose Jacobitical followers threatened continually to retake the British monarchy. Example sentencesExamples - Swift's writings of the 1690s, during the last four years of Queen Anne's reign, and after the Hanoverian succession are shown to contain Jacobitical political implications when examined in their context in the 'paper wars' of the period.
noun ˈdʒakəˌbʌɪtɪz(ə)mˈdʒækəˌbaɪdˌɪzəm Eventually admiration for Jacobitism was adopted, along with tartan, by the Hanoverians themselves as part of a general nostalgia for the good old days. Example sentencesExamples - Military units raised by the Crown in the mid-18th century were not in sympathy with the Jacobitism that pervaded the majority of Highland clans.
- He kept pictures of Oliver Cromwell among his collection of images of the kings and queens of England, and yet late in life was accused of Popery and Jacobitism.
- When the rebels arrived in Manchester, a centre of Jacobitism, on 28 November there were public celebrations among avowed Jacobites and a small Manchester regiment was raised.
- According to MacKillop, Jacobitism has become a means to assuage Scotland's collective guilt about the Act of Union, in which the country's sovereignty was given up.
Origin From Latin Jacobus 'James' (see Jacobean) + -ite1. noun ˈdʒakəbʌɪtˈdʒækəˌbaɪt A member of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Monophysite). Example sentencesExamples - All the different sects within the Syrian Christian community - Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara, Jacobite, Orthodox as well as Caldean - had their original liturgy in Syriac.
- The Coptic church was a sister-church of the Jacobite church of Syria.
- Back in Jerusalem, the Orthodox and Jacobite Christians were allowed to stay, having only to pay the special tax imposed by Islam.
Origin Early 15th century: from medieval Latin Jacobita, from the name of Jacobus Baradaeus, a 6th-century Syrian monk. nounˈdʒækəˌbaɪtˈjakəˌbīt A supporter of the deposed James II and his descendants in their claim to the British throne after the Revolution of 1688. Drawing most of their support from Catholic clans of the Scottish Highlands, Jacobites made attempts to regain the throne in 1689–90, 1715, 1719, and 1745–6, finally being defeated at the Battle of Culloden. Example sentencesExamples - Peter Watkins' Culloden was a powerful recreation of the massacre of the Jacobites at the hands of the English in 1746, and the subsequent ransacking of the Highlands.
- The Settler was an unreconstructed Jacobite who fled to Maryland in the dark days following the Glorious Revolution.
- The court party retorted that the country party members were either secret Jacobites or self-seeking careerists, making trouble for their own ends.
- She was named after Prince Charlie and was a great Jacobite, of which I'm very proud.
- Beatrix and her brother Frank, now the fifth viscount, are ardent Jacobites, and Esmond becomes involved with them in a plot to restore James Edward Stuart, the old pretender, to the throne on the death of Queen Anne.
adjectiveˈdʒækəˌbaɪtˈjakəˌbīt Relating to or denoting supporters of the deposed James II and his descendants in their claim to the British throne after the Revolution of 1688.
Origin From Latin Jacobus ‘James’ (see Jacobean) + -ite. nounˈdʒækəˌbaɪtˈjakəˌbīt A member of the Syrian Orthodox Church (Monophysite). Example sentencesExamples - All the different sects within the Syrian Christian community - Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara, Jacobite, Orthodox as well as Caldean - had their original liturgy in Syriac.
- The Coptic church was a sister-church of the Jacobite church of Syria.
- Back in Jerusalem, the Orthodox and Jacobite Christians were allowed to stay, having only to pay the special tax imposed by Islam.
Origin Early 15th century: from medieval Latin Jacobita, from the name of Jacobus Baradaeus, a 6th-century Syrian monk. |