Jacobin
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Definition of Jacobin
1 : dominican
2 [ French, from Jacobin Dominican; from the group's founding in the Dominican convent in Paris ] : a member of an extremist or radical political group especially : a member of such a group advocating egalitarian democracy and engaging in terrorist activities during the French Revolution of 1789
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Jacobinical
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