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Jesuitical
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English
Alternative forms
en jesuitical
Adjective
en Jesuitic.
en w:Catherine Jemmat The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself 2nd London Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross 1765 I 145 https://books.google.com/books?id=EHoEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA145 316667080 [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action;
en 2018 Transcription Kate Atkinson 72 9780857525888 There certainly was a kind of Jesuitical cast to him; she could imagine him sombre in a black cassock.
Derived terms
en Jesuitically