Other Word Forms
- casuistically adverb
- noncasuistic adjective
- noncasuistical adjective
- noncasuistically adverb
- overcasuistic adjective
- overcasuistical adjective
- overcasuistically adverb
Etymology
Origin of casuistic
Example Sentences
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It would be easy enough to brush off this peculiar fact with some casuistic postmodernist explanation, such as saying that disenfranchised groups find empowerment through humor.
From Scientific American • Feb. 26, 2011
The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude."
From Time Magazine Archive
These "intellectuals" entered the lists against religious fanaticism and casuistic methods, seeking to replace them by liberal ideas and scientific research.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum
If the heap of things demanded proved on inspection less chaotic than at first they seemed, if they furnished their own relative test and measure, then the casuistic problem would be solved.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
Then with the rise of the visionary projects just mentioned the gravest doubts began to agitate the fertile and casuistic mind of the Lady Superior.
From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward
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