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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Jacobin, n. [f. L. Jacobus James; cf. e.m.E. Jacobite (1611, in this sense 1689).] A Jacobite. —1689 Leven & Melville P. 262.
I hope … to be found an honest man, and neither jacobin nor republican
