antijacobin

English

Alternative forms

  • anti-jacobin, anti-Jacobin

Etymology

From anti- +‎ Jacobin, after the model of earlier French antijacobin.

Noun

antijacobin (plural antijacobins)

  1. (historical) A political opponent of the Jacobins.
    • 1822, Lord Byron, The Vision of Judgement, stanza 97:
      For Pantisocracy he once had cried
      Aloud, a scheme less moral than ’twas clever—
      Then turned a hearty Antijacobin—
      Had turned his coat—& would have turned his skin.

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