Jesuit
noun/ˈdʒezjuɪt/
/ˈdʒeʒəwət/
- 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
Oxford Collocations DictionaryJesuit is used before these nouns:- priest
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’.Want to learn more?
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