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
Then science became the ally of poetry and speculative thought in the war against Obscurantism, Ultramontanism, and Jesuitism in all its forms.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)
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
Jesuitism in France, 185. —sources of its power, 186.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
Jansenism and Jesuitism, opposed as they were, have this in common, that both were movements in that revival of Roman Catholicism which was stimulated by the rivalry of the Protestant Reformation.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
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