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
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
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
Author of “A History of the English Episcopacy, from 1640 to 1662,” and “The State of Popery and Jesuitism in England from the Reformation, till 1829.”
From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Lathbury, Thomas
For many things, including parental tyranny and priestcraft and Jesuitism, will here conspire against the single blessedness of him, which is now seeking to double itself.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
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