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
Jesuitism is not to parade in full uniform, nor is it to lurk privily under never so humble a roof.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
Loyola would never have founded Jesuitism if he had not first been disfigured and crippled in a military siege.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
This is one of the grand causes of the success of Jesuitism in this country.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
Jesuitism in France, 185. —sources of its power, 186.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
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