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    SOCIETY OF JESUS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 scholarshipplay

    Synonyms:

    Jesuit order; Society of Jesus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("Society of Jesus" is a kind of...):

    monastic order; order (a group of person living under a religious rule)

    Meronyms (members of "Society of Jesus"):

    Jesuit (a member of the Jesuit order)

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