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of or characteristic of radical revolutionary politics
His jacobinic zeal alarmed the moderate members of the assembly.
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jacobinically
Etymology
From 'Jacobin', the radical political club of the French Revolution that met in the former convent of the Jacobins (Dominican friars) in Paris, ultimately from Latin 'Jacobus' ('James').
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