Jesuitic

"Bobby Jindal, in a fit of Jesuitic reasoning, said he's have voted against the bill if he were still in the House, but he'll accept the billions of dollars coming to health, higher ed and infrastructure in Louisiana."

Why does Sarah Palin hate the House Republicans so? Ann Althouse 2009

Bobby Jindal, in a fit of Jesuitic reasoning, said he's have voted against the bill if he were still in the House, but he'll accept the billions of dollars coming to health, higher ed and infrastructure in Louisiana.

Why does Sarah Palin hate the House Republicans so? Ann Althouse 2009

What hunger, what cold, what torment and death have some Jesuitic and other antichristian missionaries undergone, to propagate the most ruining delusions of hell; all under the pretence of earnestness to gain sinners to Christ and his church.

The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

The Bolsheviki were the Jesuits of the Socialist Church: they believed in the Jesuitic motto that the end justifies the means.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

I had come to realize that the Communists believed implicitly in the Jesuitic formula that the end justifies all means.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

On the other hand, another type of mind, shrewder and keener and more tortuous too, sees in the very strength of the anti-Negro movement its patent weaknesses, and with Jesuitic casuistry is deterred by no ethical considerations in the endeavor to turn this weakness to the black man's strength.

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

In resources of this nature Blake became quite conscienceless, salving his soul with the altogether Jesuitic claim that illegal means were always justified by the legal end.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

State as the expression of her ‘other-worldly’ sentiment, then monasticism has indeed conquered in her; but if we see, in the manner in which she to-day maintains this attitude, an essential secularisation, then it is precisely the Jesuitic monasticism which is to be made answerable therefor.

Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine 1851-1930 1911

On the other hand, another type of mind, shrewder and keener and more tortuous too, sees in the very strength of the anti-Negro movement its patent weaknesses, and with Jesuitic casuistry is deterred by no ethical considerations in the endeavor to turn this weakness to the black man's strength.

The Souls of Black Folk 1903

On the other hand, another type of mind, shrewder and keener and more tortuous too, sees in the very strength of the anti-Negro movement its patent weaknesses, and with Jesuitic casuistry is deterred by no ethical considerations in the endeavor to turn this weakness to the black man’s strength.

X. Of the Faith of the Fathers. William Edward Burghardt 1903