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jesuit
/ˈd͡ʒɛzuɪt/
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What does jesuit mean?
noun
- A member of the Society of Jesus.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Society of Jesus or its members.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) A crafty person; an intriguer.
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IPA pronunciation
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That jesuit had travelled over the whole country, and had no inclination to represent it as less inconsiderable than it really was.
I told Bower, that though this trusting a Jesuit did great honour to his simplicity, it Certainly did none to his judgment.
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Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in the camp that the German Jesuit was dead.
To this feeling it was due that, even in the first years of the century, the Jesuit casuists had come to the rescue.
We have read the statement of a Jesuit father, that "the state cannot justly enforce compulsory education, even in case of utter illiteracy."