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Jesuitry

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Jesuitism; subtle argument. countable, uncountable

    "The poor Girondins, many of them, under such fierce bellowing of Patriotism, say Death; justifying, motivant, that most miserable word of theirs by some brief casuistry and jesuitry."

  2. 2
    the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic) wordnet

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From Jesuit + -ry.

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