Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits. It was suppressed by Pope Urban VIII. about 1633.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Hist.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
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In short, my satisfaction would have been complete, but for wanting the presence of that jesuitess, "the good old papist."
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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