Definitions for Jesuit

Jesuit Jes·u·it

Spelling: [jezh-oo-it, jez-oo-, jez-yoo-]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛʒ u ɪt, ˈdʒɛz u-, ˈdʒɛz yu-/

Jesuit is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in Jesuit (eijstu).

Definitions for Jesuit

noun

  1. a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534.
  2. (often lowercase) a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person: so called in allusion to the methods ascribed to the order by its opponents.

adjective

  1. of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.

Origin of Jesuit

1550-60; New Latin Jēsuita, equivalent to Latin Jēsu(s) + -ita -ite1

Examples for Jesuit

There was a short silence, and then the Jesuit spoke—sharply and suddenly.

Francis told reporters that he has not had a true vacation since 1975 when he went to Buenos Aires with the Jesuit community.

“We get to live and work with a group of Jesuit scientists who take both science and faith very seriously,” he writes.

At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.

One of those was a Jesuit, like the pope, named Rutilio Grande.

He says that he had been assured, another Jesuit had met with a Floridian woman in China.

He is a Jesuit by his garb; he is much more so than they are by his 'savoir-vivre'.

One, a young Jesuit who had been in England, was delighted to practise his English.

The Jesuit influence at Rome had procured the condemnation of the book.

Never lose the palpable faith in human progress that is the greatest gift of a Jesuit education from Holy Cross.

Word Value for Jesuit
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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