[f. JESUIT sb. + -RY.]
1. The principles, doctrine, or practices of the Jesuits, or such as are ascribed to them; subtle casuistry or prevarication; the doctrine that the end justifies the means.
1832. Coleridge, Table T. (1851), 190. The honest German Jesuitry of Dobrizhoffer.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. II. vii. Justifying, motivant, that most miserable word of theirs, by some brief casuistry and jesuitry.
1847. G. E. Corrie, 3 May, in M. Holroyd, Mem., xi. (1890), 249. You would have to contend against all the Jesuitry and subtilty of Stonyhurst.
1891. Sidgwick, Elem. Politics, 196. The general indignation caused by Jesuitry.
2. nonce-use. (See JESUIT v. 4.)
1881. Freeman, Subj. Venice, Zara, 130. The triforium has an air of Jesuitry; but it seems to be genuine, only more or less plastered.
