Advertisement
Advertisement
Jesuit
[ jezh-oo-it, jez-oo-, jez-yoo- ]
noun
- a member of a Roman Catholic religious order Society of Jesus founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
- (often lowercase) a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person: so called in allusion to the methods ascribed to the order by its opponents.
adjective
- of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
Jesuit
/ ˈɛʊɪ /
noun
- a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (the Society of Jesus ) founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola in 1534 with the aims of defending the papacy and Catholicism against the Reformation and to undertake missionary work among the heathen
- informal.sometimes not capital a person given to subtle and equivocating arguments; casuist
Derived Forms
- ˈپ, adverb
- ˌˈپ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·پ-·· noun adjective
- -·· noun adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Jesuit1
Example Sentences
Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and columnist at the National Catholic Reporter, was at the Vatican when Leo was elected pope.
“One pope after another did an encyclical to mark further the rights of the poor,” said James F. Keenan, S.J., a Jesuit priest and professor of theology at Boston College.
He got his law degree at Saint Louis University, a Jesuit school that has acknowledged the names and stories of enslaved Black Americans who built the university.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois told the Jesuit magazine America that Trump's post was "deeply offensive."
The church houses the Salus Populi Romani, a Byzantine icon of the Virgin believed to have been made by St Luke the Evangelist and used by Jesuit orders all over the world.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse