Jacobite

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin Jācōbus (James) +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒækəbaɪt/
  • Hyphenation: Jac‧ob‧ite

Noun

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Jacobite (plural Jacobites)

  1. (historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. [from 17th c.]
  2. (Christianity, dated) A member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, or historically any miaphysite or monophysite. [from 15th c.]
  3. (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.
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