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Definition of Jesuit noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Jesuit

noun
 
/ˈdʒezjuɪt/
 
/ˈdʒeʒəwət/
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  1. a Roman Catholic priest who is a member of the Society of Jesus, a group founded in 1534 to do missionary work
    • a Jesuit priest
    Topics Religion and festivalsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryJesuit is used before these nouns:
    • priest
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    Word Originfrom French jésuite or modern Latin Jesuita, from Christian Latin Iesus from Greek Iēsous, from a late Hebrew or Aramaic analogous formation based on Yěhōšûă‘ ‘Joshua’.
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