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Jesuitism|ˈdʒɛzjuːɪˌtɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism: cf. F. jésuitisme.]
1. The system, doctrine, principles, or practice of the Jesuits.
1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 254 It is one point of Iesuitisme. 1817Lady Morgan France v. (1818) II. 49 In their contests on Jansenism and Jesuitism. 1862Max Müller Chips (1880) I. ix. 185 Even Christianity has been depraved into Jesuitism and Mormonism. 1897J. McCabe Twelve Yrs. in Monastery ix. 187, I have met very many priests who quite accept the Protestant Alliance version of Jesuitism. 1901W. C. Copeland Empire's Greatest Danger is. 58 How can one prove that the origin of this particular ‘genius’ of Jesuitism belongs to Mussulman monasticism? c1905H. A. Henderson Shall we tolerate Jesuits? viii. 32 Jesuitism is too deadly a danger for us as a Protestant nation to tolerate. 1913J. McCabe Candid. Hist. Jesuits vii. 167 (heading) The first century of Jesuitism.
2. Principles or practice of such a character as those ascribed to the Jesuits; Jesuitry.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1864) 54 After this they tried experiments: First by poyson, and this was the Iesuites Iesuitisme. 1749J. Wesley Jrnl. 2 June (1912) III. 404 A gentlewoman informed me that Dr. B had averred to her..that it [sc. Methodism] was all Jesuitism at the bottom. Alas for poor Dr. B.! 1829Jesuitism & Methodism I. xi. 187 Had he been present,..spite of Jesuitism and priestly pride, it is probable his secret would have escaped him. 1838Fraser's Mag. XVIII. 751 A piece of Protestant jesuitism, quite worthy of Loyola. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xii. 193 The mere inverted Jesuitism of a man resolved to do good that evil might come. 1956Time 2 Jan. 58/2 Her plans to give ‘freedom’ to Bavaria were blocked by what she called ‘the cloven foot of Jesuitism’. 1970Guardian 25 July 7/2 Both Catholics and Communists suffered from Jesuitism, from a belief that the ends justified the means, and the Church would be willing to come to agreement when the terms suited its books.
3. A Jesuitical quibble or equivocation. rare.
1749G. Lavington Enthus. Method. & Papists (1754) I. ii. xxxiii, Be open and sincere, consistent and uniform. Affect not Jesuitisms. 1781S. Peters Hist. Conn. 289, I hope Mr. Neal did not mean to quibble, as the New-Englanders generally do, by a jesuitism, viz. that religion is peaceable and admits not of quarrels. |