Jesuitical

ADJECTIVE
  1. having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
    Jesuitical education
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How To Use Jesuitical In A Sentence

  • For decades, ‘Jesuitical’ became a term of abuse, signifying mental reservation, prevarication, and casuistry.
  • On what is called the Jesuitical doctrine of Pious Frauds, it was voted that they are wrong, although on the similar question whether it is ever allowable to tell lies the members agreed with military men, statesmen and others that occasion may arise to justify them. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
  • Then, just after you branded me as Jesuitical, I turned the conversation to Lucile, saying that I wished to see what I could see. CHAPTER 10
  • Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
  • Thus, to all her mother's incitement she replied merely by such phrases as are wrongly called Jesuitical -- wrongly, because the Albert Savarus
  • Jesuitical education
  • Garnet was accused of knowing about the plot beforehand and not reporting it to the authorities. he was accused of Jesuitical equivocation.
  • He invented the word "Jesuitical", in his Provincial Letters, and in those letters single-handedly created the myth of the crafty Jesuit. California Literary Review
  • Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
  • He is bringing back the problem of jesuitical thinking, a mode of thought characterized by "dissembling and equivocating in a manner once associated with Jesuits. Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame
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