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Jesuitical
[ jezh-oo-it-i-kuhl, jez-oo-, jez-yoo- ]
adjective
- of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- (often lowercase) practicing casuistry or equivocation; using subtle or oversubtle reasoning; crafty; sly; intriguing.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Jesuitical1
Example Sentences
We can wax Jesuitical about the differences between saying Harris will “destroy” the country and saying that Trump is a “threat to democracy.”
Frank Pembleton, upright, intense, intellectual, philosophical, confrontational, Jesuitical, “legendary” within the world of the show, he was the series’ gravitational center, a brilliant detective and a psychologically acute interrogator.
Given that the Catholic tradition has always made a show of scholarly erudition, and that Jesuitical training has its advantages in the cut-and-thrust of debate, Catholic apologists have won the conservative idea war by default.
These working-class folks seemed puzzled by Brown’s Jesuitical enviro-hipster act, but they cheered anyway, as instructed.
Ironically, he cited the phrase “Jesuitical casuistry” in his argument, apparently unaware that he was employing it.
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