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The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.

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  1. n. The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
  2. n. the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror
  3. The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.
  4. The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious oppositionto legitimate government.Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towardsthe opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C.Shairp.
  5. n. the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror