| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "HEBERTISTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Hebertists (3 syl.). The partisans of the vile demagogue, Jacques Réné Hébert, chief of the Cordeliers, a revolutionary club which boasted of such names as Anacharsis Clootz, Ronsin, Vincent, and Momoro, in the great French Revolution. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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