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  • noun Plural form of Jacobin.

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Examples

  • She warned that what she called the Jacobins in the African National Congress are abusing the institutions of the criminal justice system to protect their political allies, purge their opponents, entrench their power and enrich themselves.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2010

  • She warned that what she called the Jacobins in the African National Congress are abusing the institutions of the criminal justice system to protect their political allies, purge their opponents, entrench their power and enrich themselves.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2010

  • So, Here we are, Chests Bowed, anger in Voice, Beating each other up, while the Edomites, the Bush co. fascist Jacobins is what they really are, have used this as an avenue of division.

    Think Progress » Limbaugh: Euphoria Over Alito, A “European” “Married Male” 2005

  • For this reason he was more afraid of those whom he called Jacobins than of the Royalists.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • He loved to compare the opinions of those whom he called the Jacobins with the opinions of the men of 1789; and even them he found too liberal.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • For this reason he was more afraid of those whom he called Jacobins than of the Royalists.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • For this reason he was more afraid of those whom he called Jacobins than of the Royalists.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 05 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • For this reason he was more afraid of those whom he called Jacobins than of the Royalists.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • Not such ragged-trousered philanthropists: print depicting Jacobins from the French Revolution, in Paris 1793-94.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Not the least singular thing about the Jacobins is the very slender material basis on which their overwhelming power rested.

    Firedoglake » The Dividing Line of Torture 2006

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