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jacobinize en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Jacobinize.
Such unwarrantable steps could not make proselytes of the Catholic military ; it might, in time, make them indifferent to all forms of worship, and thereby jacobinize them upon the French scale, and, perhaps, in the hour of danger, induce them to forget their duty and their loyalty, in order to be revenged of their persecutors.
1895, John Healy, Maynooth College: Its Centenary History, page 694:Great efforts will be made to jacobinize Massachusetts, and to elect Gerry, though many think Mr. A. will be the jacobin candidate.
1854, Fisher Ames, Seth Amers, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames:They assume an attitude towards the government of distrust, if not of hostility, and exert their influence to jacobinize the church instead of destroying her, as the revolution would do if it could.
1884, Orestes Augustus Brownson, The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Civilization, page 189:
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