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jesuit order
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Noun jesuit order has 1 sense
- jesuit order(n = noun.group) society of jesus - 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; Array is a kind of monastic order, order
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