Jacobite

See also: jacobite

English

Etymology

From Latin Jācōbus (“James”) +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.]
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Among the Jacobites the dismay was great

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.

Related terms

• Jacobitism

Translations

supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings

• Czech: jakobita m
• Finnish: jakobiitti (fi)
• French: jacobite (fr) m or f
• German: Jakobite m, Jakobitin f
• Irish: Seacaibíteach m
• Italian: giacobita m or f
• Scottish Gaelic: Seumasach m
• Spanish: jacobita m or f
• Welsh: Iacobit m, Jacobit m

Syriac Orthodox Christian

• Armenian: հակոբիկ (hakobik)
• Italian: giacobita m or f
• Spanish: jacobita m or f