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Society of Jesus   /səsˈaɪəti əv dʒˈizəs/   Listen
Society of Jesus

noun
1.
A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship.  Synonym: Jesuit order.






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... their loud voices had resolved into untranslatable murmurs, three men came into the public room and ranged themselves in front of the fire. The close fitting, long black cassocks, the wide-brimmed hats looped up at the sides, proclaimed two of them to belong to the Society of Jesus. The third, his body clothed in nondescript skins and furs, his feet in beaded moccasins, his head hatless and the coarse black hair adorned with a solitary feather from a heron's wing and glistening with melting ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath



Words linked to "Society of Jesus" :   order, Jesuit, monastic order



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