jesuitism

• “If they are, Darwinism is mere jesuitism, in attempting to correlate them.”

  The Book of the Damned

• “The jesuitism of this answer revealed such love and such regret, that a man of less firmness than the general would have betrayed his joy in the midst of a peril so novel to him.”

  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3

• “It was, therefore, necessary to disguise their design under some plausible pretext; and, with characteristic jesuitism, they seized upon philanthrophy for the purpose.”

  Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union of States, and as to the Grounds of Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right.

• “His spirit was communicated to leading men throughout his section, and to many in the West who had emigrated from that section or who had been corrupted by his jesuitism.”

  Secession: Considered as a Right in the States Composing the Late American Union of States, and as to the Grounds of Justification of the Southern States in Exercising the Right.

• “So then each one of the different classes employed its own suitable religion, the landholding squires catholic jesuitism or protestant orthodoxy, the liberal and radical bourgeois rationalism, and it makes no difference therefore whether people themselves believe in their respective religions or not.”

  Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy

• “But the Jesuits are accused of pushing this doctrine to its remotest consequences, of being its most unhesitating defenders, -- so that jesuitism and expediency are popularly convertible terms.”

  Beacon Lights of History

• “There was a jesuitism in this speech, which did not recommend it or its speaker to the Contessa Violante.”

  A Siren

• “Founded on the substantial rocks of mendicancy and jesuitism, it might again triumph over its rapidly rising rival, the heretic Amsterdam, which had no better basis for its grandeur than religious and political liberty, and uncontrolled access to the ocean.”

  History of the United Netherlands, 1590a

• “Girondins have moved, Buzot moved long ago, from principle and also from jesuitism, that the whole race of Bourbons should be marched forth from the soil of France; this”

  The French Revolution

• “Here is one of the thousand examples of a woman's jesuitism, and this example constitutes the most terrible of the petty troubles of married life; it is perhaps the most serious.”

  Analytical Studies

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