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adjectivehaving qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
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nouna member of the Jesuit ordertype of:
Definition that contains jesuit
- examination a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)
- xavier Spanish missionary and Jesuit who establish missionaries in Japan and Ceylon and the East Indies (1506-1552)
- oates English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)
- jesuit having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
- jesuit a member of the Jesuit order
- jesuitical having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
- examen a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)
- jesuitic having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
- jesuitry the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)
- counter reformation the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected); many leaders were Jesuits