casuistries
- plural of casuistry.
Example Sentences
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It happened in Solnechnogorsk, 35 miles from Moscow and a world away from the casuistries of capitalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
They 'knew' when He did not seem to be trenching on their prerogatives, or driving His Ithuriel-spear through their traditional professions of orthodoxy and punctilious casuistries.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander
Yet we shrug our shoulders at their uncouth or outlandish names; we assume that from their chairs there issued naught but rhetoric, casuistries and fallacies, and that their multitudinous disciples were silly moths.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford
But a true appreciation of these things is possible only in the light of a whole system of such art- casuistries.
From The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Pater, Walter
Under the instruction of the Countess's director the boy's conscience was enervated by the casuistries of Liguorianism and his devotion dulled by the imposition of interminable "pious practices."
From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith
