Jesuitry
English
Etymology
Jesuit + -ry
Noun
Jesuitry (countable and uncountable, plural Jesuitries)
- Jesuitism; subtle argument.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Jesuitry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)