Dominican vs Jacobin - What's the difference?
dominican | jacobin |
A person from the Dominican Republic or of its descent.
A person from the Commonwealth of Dominica or of its descent.
A member of the religious order founded by St. Dominic.
Of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people.
Of, from, or pertaining to Dominica, or its people.
Of or belonging to the Dominican religious order.
A Dominican friar.
A member of a radical French political club founded (at an old Jacobin convent) in 1789 and one of the driving forces of the French Revolution.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 429-30:
*:The Jacobins acted as a left-of-centre parliamentary pressure group, spending much of their time in coordinating the following day's business in the Assembly.
By extension, a political radical.
A breed of domestic pigeon (known for its feathered hood over its head).
