Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Jesuitism, in either of its senses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Jesuitism; subtle argument.
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- noun
Jesuitism ;subtle argument .
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- noun the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)
Etymologies
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Examples
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It will be seen that what is known as Jesuitry, in its mundane force and in its personal devotion to a cause, emerges from the precepts of Ignatius.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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English spirit from the gentle Jesuitry of the foreign and Romish system.
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They saw the emissaries of Jesuitry everywhere and were unceasing in denouncing all their wicked wiles, but it was notorious that each cast an eye askance upon the other and each was rather inclined to be persuaded to believe that his pretended fellow-crusader was a Jesuit in disguise.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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Perhaps, unknown to herself, her foreign blood prompted her to that sad Jesuitry which teaches all means are justifiable to the desired end.
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
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Nicanor_, an attack on Laud and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters with Jesuitry; _Anabaptism, the true Fountain of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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It is the true principle of Jesuitry applied to international politics.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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It is the true principle of Jesuitry applied to international politics.
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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And now they were gone, and in their place was a queer Jesuitry of kyries and candles, and a gospel which kicked and goaded and would not allow one to sleep ....
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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That way lies Jesuitry; but each infringement must be judged on its own merits, and as Roosevelt followed more and more these short cuts to justice he needed to be more closely scrutinized.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919
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He was suspected of being a Jesuit before even Jesuitry was born.
Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913
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