jacobites

/JH AE1 K AH0 B AY0 T S/

noun

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.

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