JACOBITES

"JACOBITES" is a plural of: jacobite.

Date "JACOBITES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Specialty Definition: JACOBITES

Domain	Definition
Literature	Jacobites (3 syl.). The partisans of James II. (when William III. superseded him), his son, and grandson. Jacobites, nicknamed Warming-pans. It is said that Mary d'Este, the wife of James II., never had a living child, but that on one occasion a child, introduced to her bedroom in a warming-pan, was substituted for her dead infant. This "warming-pan child" was the Pretender. Such is the tale, the truth is quite another matter. Jacobites. An Oriental sect of Monophysites, so called from Jacobus Baradæus (Jacoub Al-Baradei), Bishop of Edessa, in Syria, in the sixth century. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	JACOBITES. Sham or collar shirts. Also partizans for the Stuart family: from the name of the abdicated king, i.e. James or Jacobus. It is said by the whigs, that God changed Jacob's name to Israel, lest the descendants of that patriarch should be called J. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Crosswords: JACOBITES

English words defined with "JACOBITES": Jacobitical, Jacobitism. (references)

Specialty definitions using "JACOBITES": HIGH FLYERS ♦ Warming-pan. (references)

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Modern Usage: JACOBITES

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Young Jacobites (1959)
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Commercial Usage: JACOBITES

Domain	Title
Books	Jacobites of Lowland Scotland, England, Ireland, France, and Spain (1745) (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: JACOBITES

"JACOBITES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "JACOBITES" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	98	33,072

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Expression: JACOBITES

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "JACOBITES": non-jacobites.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: JACOBITES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
jacobites	21
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Anagrams: JACOBITES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-j-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: iceboats.
	-2 letters: iceboat, objects.
	-3 letters: abject, biotas, bisect, boites, ceibas, cestoi, coatis, cobias, costae, jabots, object, objets, scotia, sobeit, tobies.
	-4 letters: abets, ascot, baits, basic, baste, bates, beast, beats, besot, betas, bices, biota, bites, boast, boats, boite, botas, caste, cates, ceiba, cesta, cesti, cites, coast, coati, coats, cobia, coset, cosie, costa, cotes, escot, iotas.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-j-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: abjections.
	+5 letters: nonjusticiable.
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