noun
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theology or practices of the Jesuits
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informal subtle and equivocating arguments; casuistry
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But he does not slight the other distinctive aspect of Jesuitism: its military discipline as the first Catholic order vowed specifically to the defense of the papacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cavour sought him, and asked him to reveal the secrets of Jesuitism.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various
We can not say so much for Carlyle, whose eighth number of Latter-Day Tracts, on Jesuitism, brings that flaming and fantastic series to a close, with little detriment, we presume, to the public.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
The emotional element in Jesuitism appealed strongly to women.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
While also the Italians of the sixteenth century rushed into moral and religious confusion, which only Jesuitism could discipline, the Germans of the same time quietly and comfortably adopted the Reformation.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Lee, Vernon
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