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Definition of "jacqueries" []

  • Plural form of jacquerie. (noun)

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Use "jacqueries" in a sentence
  • "Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful commotions which were formerly called jacqueries, beside which purely political agitations are the merest child's play, which are no longer the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of discomfort against comfort."
  • "Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful commotions which were formerly called jacqueries, beside which purely political agitations are the merest child’s play, which are no longer the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of discomfort against comfort."
  • "Christianity recurred in many types of protests, from the peasant jacqueries of the late Middle Ages, through the Levellers and Diggers of the English Civil War, to the late nineteenth-century peasant uprisings in southern Europe."