Example sentences for: jesuitical

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

  • "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.

  • To characterize a lie as an "economy of truth" would be a Jesuitical formulation.

  • that's just too Jesuitical for words."

  • Imagine it: In the daytime, Jesuitical preparations for long uphill organizing drives.

  • William Safire argues that "Jesuitical" has by now developed a sense devoid of any overtones of prevarication: "subtle, intricate, moralistic reasoning, informed by a rigorous logic" is his definition.


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