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a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)

The University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy is an outstanding college-prep school.

Jesuit = a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)

He is a Jesuit professor of theology at Georgetown University.
The University has many Jesuit professors.
She sent Myeko to the kindergarten which the Jesuits reopened,
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

Jesuits = members of a Christian organization known for their schools and missionary work

The sovereigns of Paraguay admit as few Spanish Jesuits as possible; they prefer those of other nations as being more subordinate to their commands.
Voltaire -- Candide

Jesuits = a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)

From force of habit he had written at the top of the first page the initial letters of the jesuit motto:
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Jesuit = the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)

As to texts, look at history; it, is known that all the texts have been falsified by the Jesuits.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Their teacher, a delicate Jesuit with forgiving eyes, would simply point him to a seat in the back row.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
Adolphus Cusins: you are a Jesuit.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
He walks with haughty paces: He snuffles all he snuffle can: "He scents the Jesuits' traces."
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
So it was in the Middle Ages, and later the Jesuits always exploited this human trait.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
"Yes—Abbot Gurot, a Jesuit," said Ivan Petrovitch.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
He took no part in the conversation for a long while, but listened, with an air of calm enmity, while his friends discussed the Jesuits.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
In the sunset the Emperor Maximilian knelt in prayer above his bronze mourners; a quartet of Jesuit novices paced and read in the university garden.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
For it was like a band of Jesuits landing where a heathen people thirsted for baptism in the dense thousands, thronging out of their brick towns.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
I am speaking, my good engineer, of the Jesuits.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
"Jesuit?" asked Webb, bewildered.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
With the curate of Montdidier and the superior of the Jesuits of Amiens.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
"It is bad when your fame outruns your means," said the Spanish Jesuit Gracian.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
At the Jesuit church, I picked up a booklet I had also noticed on Dean Gandy's coffee table—For Men of Good Will, by Father Robert Guste.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me

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