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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Origin of Jesuitism
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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
And that is a publication of his relations with Jesuitism, the destruction of the toilsomely obtained confidence of his party, in order to prevent his election.
From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
The reader will bear with me in quoting a few more passages, which the Boston Recorder selects from the writings of Guinet, on the subject of Jesuitism.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
Jesuitism combined the maximum of worldly freedom with an appearance of the greatest piety.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
The two comrades had not given the Abbé Jeufroy such a fall as they expected; therefore, Pécuchet found in him "the stamp of Jesuitism."
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave
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