Jesuitism
noun
the system, principles, or practices of the Jesuits.
Jesuitry
-
a variation of
Jesuitism.
Example Sentences
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The suppression of self by the Jesuits was hardly more complete than the suppression of self by the most brilliant and effective of the insurgents against Jesuitry.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by John Morley
I rather thought there was some sort of Jesuitry at work.
From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Emily Sarah Holt
Also, I have seen my name attached to verses I never wrote, and have been claimed both by Swedenborgians and Freemasons as a brother, while Jesuitry has otherwise traduced me.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
I own that a species of Jesuitry suggested the scheme, and that while providing for the exigencies of my own comrades, I satisfied my conscience by rendering a good service in return.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
A spiritual ancestor of Anatole France’s marvellous full-length figure of Jerôme Coignard, Borrow’s conception takes us back first to Rabelais and secondly to the seventeenth-century conviction of the profound Machiavellism of Jesuitry.
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Thomas Seccombe
