Jacobin ism

(jak’6-bin-izm), n. [ nis me = Sp. Jacobinismo; as Jacobin + -ism.] The principles of the Jacobins; unreasonable or violent opposition to orderly government. For my part, without doubt or hesitation, I look upon jacobin ism as the most dreadful and most shameful evil which ever afflicted mankind. Burke, Conduct of the Minority, But it is precisely this idea of divinely-appointed, all pervading obligation, as the paramount law of life, that contemporary Jacobin ism holds in the greatest abhorrence, and burns to destroy. Fortnightly Rev., N. 8., XX XTX. 47.