Jesuitism

American  

[jezh-oo-i-tiz-uhm, jez-oo-, jez-yoo-] / ˈdʒɛʒ u ɪˌtɪz əm, ˈdʒɛz u-, ˈdʒɛz yu- /

Also Jesuitry

noun

1. the system, principles, or practices of the Jesuits.

2. (often lowercase) a principle or practice, as casuistry, equivocation, or craft, ascribed to the Jesuits by their opponents.

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Jesuitism British  

/ ˈdʒɛzjʊɪˌtɪzəm /

noun

1. theology or practices of the Jesuits

2. informal subtle and equivocating arguments; casuistry

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Other Word Forms

• anti-Jesuitism noun
• anti-Jesuitry noun
• pro-Jesuitism noun
• pro-Jesuitry noun

Etymology

Origin of Jesuitism

First recorded in 1600–10; Jesuit + -ism

Example Sentences

Loyola would never have founded Jesuitism if he had not first been disfigured and crippled in a military siege.

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He was educated at a Jesuit college, and the followers of Jesus have ever since reproached him with Jesuitism.

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But the moral climate of Jesuitism has produced a uniform effect everywhere that it has supplied the soil for soul-growth.

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Cavour sought him, and asked him to reveal the secrets of Jesuitism.

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Here is Jesuitism and Hudson’s Bay, combined with ignorance and religious bigotry, and shows the influence then operating upon the savage mind.

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