Jesuitryn.

/ˈdʒɛzjuːɪtri/

Etymology: < Jesuit n. + -ry suffix.

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.

ΘΚΠ

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

1832 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk (1835) II. 79 The honest German Jesuitry of Dobrizhoffer.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. vii. 142 Justifying, motivant, that most miserable word of theirs by some brief casuistry and jesuitry.

1847 G. E. Corrie Let. 3 May in Holroyd Mem. (1890) xi. 249.

1891 Sidgwick Elem. Politics 196 The general indignation caused by Jesuitry.

1901 W. C. Copeland Empire's Greatest Danger vi. 40 Belgium cleared its borders of Jesuitry in 1818.

1911 Encycl. 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.

1944 Atlantic 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.

1951 R. A. 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.

1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 1551/1 Casuistry like Jesuitry is a perfectly respectable word, but it has acquired a sinister connotation.

2. (See Jesuit v. 4.)Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1881 E. A. Freeman Sketch Subj. Lands Venice 130 The triforium has an air of Jesuitry; but it seems to be genuine, only more or less plastered.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	jesuitry
释义	Jesuitryn. /ˈdʒɛzjuːɪtri/ Etymology: < Jesuit n. + -ry suffix. 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. ΘΚΠ 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 1832 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk (1835) II. 79 The honest German Jesuitry of Dobrizhoffer. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. vii. 142 Justifying, motivant, that most miserable word of theirs by some brief casuistry and jesuitry. 1847 G. E. Corrie Let. 3 May in Holroyd Mem. (1890) xi. 249. 1891 Sidgwick Elem. Politics 196 The general indignation caused by Jesuitry. 1901 W. C. Copeland Empire's Greatest Danger vi. 40 Belgium cleared its borders of Jesuitry in 1818. 1911 Encycl. 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. 1944 Atlantic 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. 1951 R. A. 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. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Dec. 1551/1 Casuistry like Jesuitry is a perfectly respectable word, but it has acquired a sinister connotation. 2. (See Jesuit v. 4.)Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1881 E. A. Freeman Sketch Subj. Lands Venice 130 The triforium has an air of Jesuitry; but it seems to be genuine, only more or less plastered. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1832
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