Jacobinism

from 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

from 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.
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         Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism
         passed towards the opposite, but not very distant,
         extreme of Jacobinism.                   --J. C.
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