Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles of the British Jacobites, or of the sect of Jacobites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles of the Jacobites.
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Examples
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So long as jacobitism was a danger to the state, this was not a fair cause of complaint, for many tories had corresponded with the exiled princes.
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
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Since that time Sir Everard's jacobitism had been gradually decaying, like a fire which burns out for want of fuel.
The Waverley 1877
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Everard's jacobitism had been gradually decaying, like a fire which burns out for want of fuel.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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