15 uses
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Definition
a member of the Society of Jesus (known for their schools and missionary work)
- He must have been with the Jesuits, somewhere, Ivan.Book 3 — The Sensualists (56% in)
- Oh, you stinking Jesuit, who taught you?Book 3 — The Sensualists (56% in)
- What do you say to that, my fine Jesuit?Book 3 — The Sensualists (56% in)
- "Get along with you, Jesuits!" he cried to the servants.Book 3 — The Sensualists (59% in)
- _ He's a Jesuit, a Russian one, that is.Book 3 — The Sensualists (63% in)
- That's how they speak and write too—the Jesuits, at any rate.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (55% in)
- That's Rome, and not even the whole of Rome, it's false—those are the worst of the Catholics, the Inquisitors, the Jesuits!Book 5 — Pro And Contra (70% in)
- We know the Jesuits, they are spoken ill of, but surely they are not what you describe?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (70% in)
- I ask you why your Jesuits and Inquisitors have united simply for vile material gain?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (71% in)
- More than that, one such standing at the head is enough to create the actual leading idea of the Roman Church with all its armies and Jesuits, its highest idea.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (72% in)
- Surely you don't suppose I am going straight off to the Jesuits, to join the men who are correcting His work?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (73% in)
- As an afflicted marquis observed not long ago (he must have been treated by a specialist) in confession to his spiritual father—a Jesuit.Book 11 — Ivan (90% in)
- But I swear that's the genuine Jesuit casuistry and I swear that it all happened word for word as I've told you.Book 11 — Ivan (90% in)
- Those Jesuit confessionals are really my most delightful diversion at melancholy moments.Book 11 — Ivan (90% in)
- That's how the Jesuits talk, isn't it?Epilogue (38% in)
There are no more uses of "Jesuit" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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