Definition of Jacobitism:

part of speech: noun

The principles of the Jacobites.

Usage examples:

• The Tories, long deprived of power, and discredited by the taint or suspicion of Jacobitism counted for nothing. Stanley John Weyman in "The Castle Inn".

• No charge of Jacobitism could be made against a pamphlet containing such a sentence as this:- " Think, then, dear Britons! William Minto in "Daniel Defoe".

• Their loyal writers attributed Defoe's pardon to the secret Jacobitism of the Ministry-- quite wrongly- as we have just seen he was acting for Harley as a Hanoverian and not as a Jacobite. William Minto in "Daniel Defoe".

• Had Defoe confined himself to lecturing those hot Whigs who were so afraid of the secret Jacobitism of Harley's colleagues that they were tempted to withdraw their money from the public stocks, posterity, unable to judge how far these fears were justified, and how far it was due to a happy accident that they were not realized, might have given him credit for sacrificing partisanship to patriotism. William Minto in "Daniel Defoe".