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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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 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 William Hogan
Not only the Jesuits and Jesuitism were struck by the blow, but, in general, all that portion of Christendom, which was enervated by an easy indulgence.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet
What a light is cast upon the deeper places of the human heart by the history of Jesuitism in the seventeenth century!
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
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 Thomas Lathbury
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