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Definition: Robespierre |
RobespierreNoun1. French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat (1758-1794). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Robespierre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | ROBESPIERRE, a French politician who had the opportunity of doing to his enemies what most politicians would like to do to theirs. Was finally voted out and down. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonym: RobespierreSynonym: Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Robespierre |
| English words defined with "Robespierre": Danton ♦ Georges Jacques Danton ♦ Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Robespierre": Catharine Theot ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Incorruptiple ♦ ROBESPIERRE ♦ Sea-green Incorruptible. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh, it's such a big ocean, Robespierre Bigger than the whole world (Gay Purr-ee; writing credit: Chuck Jones; Dorothy Jones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Caméra explore le temps: La terreur et la vertu: Robespierre (1964) Robespierre (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The interrogation of Robespierre on the morning of the tenth Thermidor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Maximilien de Robespierre | Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible! |
Maximilien Robespierre | Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | by twenty petticoats, than by Monsieur de Robespierre. |
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| "Robespierre" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Robespierre" is used about 4 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 (proper) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Robespierre": Maxmillien Marie Isidore de Robespierre. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
robespierre | 120 |
maximilien robespierre | 24 |
maximillian robespierre | 6 |
french revolution robespierre | 4 |
picture robespierre | 3 |
maximilian robespierre | 3 |
enlightenment ideal robespierre | 2 |
robespierre reign of terror | 2 |
maximilien de robespierre | 2 |
maximilien picture robespierre | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-i-o-p-r-r-r-s" | |
-3 letters: orreries, reprobes, roperies. | |
-4 letters: beepers, beerier, berries, peeries, perries, prisere, probers, prosier, rebores, reposer, reprise, reprobe, respire, seepier, soberer, sorrier. | |
-5 letters: beeper, borers, briers, eerier, errors, orbier, peerie, poiser, priers, priors, prober, probes, proser, rebops, rebore, repose, repros, rerise, rerose, resorb, ribose, ropers, ropier, rosier, sirree, soiree, sprier. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-i-o-p-r-r-r-s" | |
+2 letters: overprescribe. | |
+3 letters: overprescribed, overprescribes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 62 65 73 70 69 65 72 72 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101111 01100010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01101001 01100101 01110010 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o b e s p i e r r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 0062 0065 0073 0070 0069 0065 0072 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5281687185827571848471 |
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