Jesuitismn.
/ˈdʒɛzjuːɪˌtɪz(ə)m/ 1. The system, doctrine, principles, or practice of the Jesuits.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Society of Jesus > [noun] > system of
Jesuitism1609
Loyolism1800
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 254 It is one point of Iesuitisme.
1817 Lady Morgan France (1818) II. v. 49 In their contests on Jansenism and Jesuitism.
1862 F. M. Müller in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 381 Even Christianity has been depraved into Jesuitism and Mormonism.
1897 J. McCabe Twelve Years in Monastery ix. 187 I have met very many priests who quite accept the Protestant Alliance version of Jesuitism.
1901 W. C. Copeland Empire's Greatest Danger is. 58 How can one prove that the origin of this particular ‘genius’ of Jesuitism belongs to Mussulman monasticism?
c1905 H. A. Henderson Shall we tolerate Jesuits? viii. 32 Jesuitism is too deadly a danger for us as a Protestant nation to tolerate.
1913 J. McCabe Candid. Hist. Jesuits vii. 167 (heading) The first century of Jesuitism.
2. Principles or practice of such a character as those ascribed to the Jesuits; Jesuitry.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun]
sophistry1340
chop-logic1533
Jesuitism1613
chopping of logic1668
casuistry1712
sophism1768
special pleading1813
subtilism1825
Jesuitry1832
verbalism1847
logic-chopping1904
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (1864) 54 After this they tried experiments: First by poyson, and this was the Iesuites Iesuitisme.
1749 J. Wesley Jrnl. 2 June (1912) III. 404 A gentlewoman informed me that Dr. B had averred to her..that it [sc. Methodism] was all Jesuitism at the bottom. Alas for poor Dr. B.!
1829 Jesuitism & Methodism I. xi. 187 Had he been present,..spite of Jesuitism and priestly pride, it is probable his secret would have escaped him.
1838 Fraser's Mag. 18 751 A piece of Protestant jesuitism, quite worthy of Loyola.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xii. 184 The mere inverted Jesuitism of a man resolved to do good that evil might come.
1956 Time 2 Jan. 58/2 Her plans to give ‘freedom’ to Bavaria were blocked by what she called ‘the cloven foot of Jesuitism’.
1970 Guardian 25 July 7/2 Both Catholics and Communists suffered from Jesuitism, from a belief that the ends justified the means, and the Church would be willing to come to agreement when the terms suited its books.
3. A Jesuitical quibble or equivocation. rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of
sophismc1350
fallacea1393
fallation1483
sophisticationa1492
fallax1530
fallacy1532
shift1545
elench1570
collusion1581
goose-trap1610
voidance1621
salvea1628
sophistry1673
wriggle1675
Jesuitism1749
special pleader1867
1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II Pref. p. xliii Be open and sincere, consistent and uniform. Affect not Jesuitisms.
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 289 I hope Mr. Neal did not mean to quibble, as the New-Englanders generally do, by a jesuitism, viz. that religion is peaceable and admits not of quarrels.
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