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SOCIETY OF JESUS
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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 scholarship
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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