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Carey's history is a bulwark against the recent charges.
"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.
The more common response among Jews was to devote themselves to Zionism as a bulwark against future persecution, or to engage in symbolic retribution (banning Wagner from Israeli national radio), or to pursue justice through the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals or other legitimate arenas of justice.
He has, for example, cast himself as a guardian of Christian morals and a bulwark against political correctness.
This raises in my mind bonzer [ bonza, bonser , or bonsa ] which first makes its appearance with the gloss that bulwark of Austral Slanguage, or its synonyms boshter and bosker , all three of which are first recorded in 1903 or 1904.