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Jacobinize en · VERB

Etymology

From Jacobin + -ize.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, sometimes, transitive) To convert to Jacobinism; to radicalize in opposition to the government.
   • If labourers were barred from pleasures they would Jacobinize the whole country, he declared. 1998, Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800:
   • Happily, France was not then Jacobinized. 1796, Edmund Burke, Letter to a Noble Lord on the Attacks upon his Person:
   • We are threatened by a most unprincipled system of agitation—the Tories actually doing their best to Jacobinize the poor, in the hope of turning an outbreak against the whig government to their own advantage. 1845, Thomas Arnold, The Edinburgh Review - Volume 47; Volume 81, page 211:

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Jacobinization