As nouns the difference between dominican and jacobin
is that
dominican is a person from the Dominican Republic or of its descent while
Jacobin is a Dominican friar.
As an adjective Dominican
is of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people.
dominican English
Noun
( en noun)
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.
Synonyms
* (member of religious order) black friar
Adjective
( en adjective)
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.
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jacobin Noun
( en noun)
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).
References
*Collins Shorter English Dictionary
*Napoleon - a biography by Frank McLynn Pages 209-10, 212, 213, 220,221,222,224,233,
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