Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The system, principles, and practices of the Jesuits.
- noun Craft; subtlety; politic duplicity: an opprobrious use.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The principles and practices of the Jesuits.
- noun Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
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- noun The
principles andpractices of theJesuits . - noun derogatory
Cunning ;deceit ;subtle argument .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)
Etymologies
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Examples
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He praised much the pamphlets; 'already saw them doing much good;' especially he delighted in "Jesuitism"! '
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'Oh! his definition of Jesuitism is capital, so good, so good!'
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His refinements were pilloried as "Jesuitism", and his motive was declared to be treason.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Carlyle's work, and perhaps nowhere breaks out in so repulsive a form as in the piece called "Jesuitism" (1850), in the _Latter-Day
Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877
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When we find, indeed, a system such as Jesuitism blasted by the ridicule of Pascal, we conclude that it was not true, -- but why? not merely because ridicule assailed it, for ridicule has assailed ten thousand systems which never even shook in the storm, but because, in the view of all candid and liberal thinkers, the ridicule _prevailed_.
Poetical Works of Akenside Mark Akenside 1745
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Jewish Jesuitism, the same practical Jesuitism which Bauer discovers in the Talmud, is the relation of the world of self-interest to the laws governing that world, the chief art of which consists in the cunning circumvention of these laws.
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Reformation Eschatology (2/2), REFORMATION BOOKSHELF CD (Volume 14 of 30), Historicism, the Papacy is the Antichrist, Islam in Revelation, Preterism (Jesuitism) and Futurism (Jesuitism) Refuted, etc.
OpEdNews - Diary: The Revealing of the Beast of the Earth: Dabbat al-Ard 2009
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His spirit is the opposite of that of Jesuitism or casuistry (Wallace).
The Sophist 2006
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This was a work, infamous in its time, of the most depraved and retrograde Jesuitism, which purported to find a grand conspiracy of Freemasons and other subversives in the overthrow of the Bourbons.
Reactionary Prophet 2004
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This was a work, infamous in its time, of the most depraved and retrograde Jesuitism, which purported to find a grand conspiracy of Freemasons and other subversives in the overthrow of the Bourbons.
Reactionary Prophet 2004
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