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n. - The ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror.

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  • I have called Jacobinism, resulting from the effects of a Western education that has been unable to penetrate harmoniously the complicated structure of Chinese character.
  • His policy was modelled upon the worst of the panic-bred measures by means of which Pitt and his colleagues were seeking to suppress "Jacobinism" in England.
  • The Volokh Conspiracy » “Liberal Jacobinism:”
  • We have been asked too, what we mean by Jacobinism?
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