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Jesuitism

[ jezh-oo-i-tiz-uhm, jez-oo-, jez-yoo- ]

noun

  1. the system, principles, or practices of the Jesuits.
  2. (often lowercase) a principle or practice, as casuistry, equivocation, or craft, ascribed to the Jesuits by their opponents.


Jesuitism

/ ˈɛʊɪˌɪə /

noun

  1. theology or practices of the Jesuits
  2. informal.
    subtle and equivocating arguments; casuistry
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Jesuitism1

First recorded in 1600–10; Jesuit + -ism
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Example Sentences

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Loyola would never have founded Jesuitism if he had not first been disfigured and crippled in a military siege.

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He was educated at a Jesuit college, and the followers of Jesus have ever since reproached him with Jesuitism.

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But the moral climate of Jesuitism has produced a uniform effect everywhere that it has supplied the soil for soul-growth.

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Cavour sought him, and asked him to reveal the secrets of Jesuitism.

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Here is Jesuitism and Hudson’s Bay, combined with ignorance and religious bigotry, and shows the influence then operating upon the savage mind.

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