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Jesuitry|ˈdʒɛzjuːɪtrɪ|
[f. Jesuit n. + -ry.]
1. The principles, doctrine, or practices of the Jesuits, or such as are ascribed to them; subtle casuistry or prevarication; the doctrine that the end justifies the means.
1832Coleridge Table T. (1851) 190 The honest German Jesuitry of Dobrizhoffer. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. ii. vii, Justifying, motivant, that most miserable word of theirs, by some brief casuistry and jesuitry. 1847G. E. Corrie 3 May in Holroyd Mem. xi. (1890) 249. 1891 Sidgwick Elem. Politics 196 The general indignation caused by Jesuitry. 1901W. C. Copeland Empire's Greatest Danger vi. 40 Belgium cleared its borders of Jesuitry in 1818. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 340/1 A certain characteristic, which soon began to manifest itself in an impatience of episcopal control, showed that the quality of ‘Jesuitry’, usually associated with the Society, was singularly lacking in their dealings with opponents. 1944Atlantic Monthly Nov. 75/1 Humanism considered as an intellectual discipline-for-discipline's-sake..is a prime specific for such ills as bigotry and puritanism and jesuitry and vulgarity..and the complacency of the bourgeois mind. 1951R. Hall Short Hist. Ital. Lit. 261 The words Jesuitry and Jesuitical have become proverbial in reference to dishonestly subtle dialectics and hypocritical condonement of evil practice. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 1551/1 Casuistry like Jesuitry is a perfectly respectable word, but it has acquired a sinister connotation.
2. nonce-use. (See Jesuit v. 4.)
1881Freeman Subj. Venice, Zara 130 The triforium has an air of Jesuitry; but it seems to be genuine, only more or less plastered. |