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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Jacobinism \Jac"o*bin*ism\, n. [Cf. F. Jacobinisme.] The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. [1913 Webster] Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Jacobinism n 1: the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror