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
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 Ameen Fares Rihani
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 William Hogan
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 Gustave Flaubert
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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