Jesuitism
noun
the system, principles, or practices of the Jesuits.
Jesuitry
-
a variation of
Jesuitism.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 hardly know any thing more amusing than the honest German Jesuitry of Dobrizhoffer.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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
Indeed, there was some truth in the charge of Jesuitry, after all!
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
I place this as second to Jesuitry, because, for a long period, there was a certain freedom of opinion allowed to the superior clergy.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
