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

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

This was the general principle of Jesuitism as a system of education; but it came to it from the Church which Pascal, no less than the Jesuits, revered. 

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

If Jesuitism were now confined to Italy alone, the members of the Christian alliance may, perhaps, be right.

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)

Now just let these limbs of the law, adopt this line of argumentation with regard to Jesuitism and Jesuits, and then, they will be both limbs of the law, and limbs of fair play.

From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Rigby, Nicholas