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noun

Jesuitism n.

The principles and practices of the Jesuits.

Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; an opprobrious use of the word.

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Etymology of 'Jesuitism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Jesuitism" Quotes from Famous Books

... which should be especially regarded with jealousy; but the actual alarm has arisen from the disclosure of a correspondence which avows designs on the West, beyond what I have here set down. It is a curious affair, and is one other evidence, if evidence were needed, that popery and jesuitism ...

— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... it became more and more the exclusive possession of the dominant classes, and these used it merely as a simple means of government to keep the lower classes in subjection. So then each one of the different classes employed its own suitable religion, the landholding squires catholic jesuitism or protestant orthodoxy, the liberal and radical bourgeois rationalism, and it makes no difference therefore whether people themselves believe in ...

— Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy • Frederick Engels

Words linked to "Jesuitism" : Jesuitic, Christian theology, Jesuitry