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jacobean

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for jacobean.

Editorial note

He didn't think about the fact that the the KJV is written in Jacobean English because it was written in the Jacobean era, and that scripture only sounds old to our ears now because that translation has persisted for so long.

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Quick take

A partisan of James I and of the House of Stuart.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of jacobean gathered in one view.

noun

A partisan of James I and of the House of Stuart.

adjective

Relating to a Jacob or James.

adjective

(historical) Relating to or characteristic of the reign of James VI and I (of Scotland and England, 1567–1625).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jacobean.

noun

A partisan of James I and of the House of Stuart.

adjective

Relating to a Jacob or James.

adjective

(historical) Relating to or characteristic of the reign of James VI and I (of Scotland and England, 1567–1625).

Example sentences

1

He didn't think about the fact that the the KJV is written in Jacobean English because it was written in the Jacobean era, and that scripture only sounds old to our ears now because that translation has persisted for so long.

2

Often only Hessian-vector products or Jacobean-vector products are required, and these can be computed via more standard autodiff techniques, usually a lot more efficiently than if you were to compute the Hessian or Jacobean directly.

3

Also for models with lots of parameters, the Jacobean and Hessian are usually impractically large to realise in memory (N^2 in the number of parameters).

4

Right now we're doing Revenger's Tragedy, another Jacobean play.

5

I wonder if this is more common in Macbeth than in Shakespeare's other plays, whether it was a deliberate choice, and whether Jacobean audiences would have felt the same sense of creepiness.

6

Nazi Germany, Jacobean England and wartime America (Civil War or WW2) all had state command economies where the central authority controlled both the means of production (either de jure in the former case or de facto in the latter cases) and the monopoly on violence.

Quote examples

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It's a parody of a typical Jacobean revenge like Webster's "Duchess of Malfi." The parody is pitch-perfect.

Proper noun examples

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But what's funny is that this book is also written in faux-Jacobean English.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use jacobean in a sentence?

He didn't think about the fact that the the KJV is written in Jacobean English because it was written in the Jacobean era, and that scripture only sounds old to our ears now because that translation has persisted for so long.

What does jacobean mean?

A partisan of James I and of the House of Stuart.

What part of speech is jacobean?

jacobean is commonly used as noun, adjective.