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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Opposed to, or one who is opposed to, the Jacobins. See Jacobin.

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  • In consequence, that journal became, and for many years continued, 'anti-ministerial, yet with a very qualified approbation of the opposition, and with far greater earnestness and zeal, both anti-jacobin and anti-gallican.

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

  • Of the well-to-do of all classes there was scarcely one man in twenty who did not become an ardent anti-jacobin.

    The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886

  • 'Philanglus' to Cobbett's _Porcupine_, the anti-jacobin paper of the day; and is described by Bentham [75] as a 'declared disciple' and a

    The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

  • As to my principles, they were, at all times, decidedly anti-jacobin and anti-revolutionary, and my American scheme is a proof of this.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • Richard the First of England, the arch-crusader and anti-jacobin by excellence, -- the very type, flower, cream, pink, symbol, and mirror of all the Holy Alliances that have ever existed on earth, excepting that he seasoned his superstition and love of conquest with a certain condiment of romantic generosity and chivalrous self-devotion, with which his imitators in all other points have found it convenient to dispense.

    Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1825

  • First of England, the arch-crusader and anti-jacobin by excellence, -- the very type, flower, cream, pink, symbol, and mirror of all the Holy Alliances that have ever existed on earth, excepting that he seasoned his superstition and love of conquest with a certain condiment of romantic generosity and chivalrous self-devotion, with which his imitators in all other points have found it convenient to dispense.

    Maid Marian 1822

  • As to my principles, they were, at all times, decidedly anti-jacobin and anti-revolutionary, and my American scheme is a proof of this.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

  • As to my principles, they were, at all times, decidedly anti-jacobin and anti-revolutionary, and my American scheme is a proof of this.

    Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • The inhabitants of Toulon, having royalist, or at least anti-jacobin, sympathies, and stirred by the fate of Marseilles, had determined, in an unhappy hour, to defy the Convention and to proclaim the dauphin by the title of Louis XVII.

    The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

  • November, 1791, M. d'Antonelle, the president, had invited the communes of the department to take up arms against this anti-jacobin city. [

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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