Words similar to jesuit

Example sentences for: jesuit

How can you use “jesuit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

It was here that St. Denis was martyred (see page 13) and where St. Ignatius Loyola launched the Jesuit movement in 1534.
Many of the bronze instruments, sundials, and sextants on display inside and on the roof of the observatory were gifts from Jesuit missionaries who lived in the capital during the 17th century.
They made little effort, despite the Jesuit presence in Asia, to convert local inhabitants to Christianity or to expand their territory into the interior.
A statement that successfully picks its way across this dangerous terrain is said to exhibit an economy of truth , and a person who has uttered such a statement is said to have been economical with the truth . These characterizations, too, were originally conferred with a sense of professional appreciation (I first heard them on the lips of some Jesuit friends), but they have also been pulled out of truth's orbit and into the atmosphere of mendacity.
The letter is wonderfully gracious--and yet, the graciousness owes everything to Washington's feelings about republican revolution, and nothing at all to what could be learned from a 16 th -century Jesuit manual of courtly behavior.