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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
jacobinism is a noun meaning "the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror". It carries one recorded sense.
the ideology of the most radical element of the French Revolution that instituted the Reign of Terror
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jacobinism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.