Jesuit
noun /ˈdʒezjuɪt/
/ˈdʒeʒəwət/
- a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious group
- a Jesuit priest
Oxford Collocations DictionaryJesuit is used before these nouns:- priest
Word Originfrom French jésuite or modern Latin Jesuita, from Christian Latin Iesus from Greek Iēsous, from a late Hebrew or Aramaic analogous formation based on Yěhōšûă‘ ‘Joshua’.