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English
Etymology
From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) + -ite, equivalent to Jacob + -ite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
- Hyphenation: Jac‧ob‧ite
Noun
Jacobite (plural Jacobites)
- (historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century.
2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63:In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.
- (Christianity, dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite.
- (Christianity, historical) A follower of Henry Jacob, a 16th–17th-century Puritan theologian; an early Congregationalist.
2022, Jerome McGann, Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes: The Unsettled Records of American Settlement, →ISBN, page 189:Dawson rightly points […] especially to the semi-separatist Henry Jacob (1563–1624), who in 1616 had founded in Southwark what is regarded as the first Congregational Church in England. These “Jacobites,” as they were called, organized around a group of ordained Anglicans who had fallen out with the established church because of its corruptions.
Translations
supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings
Syriac Orthodox Christian