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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kazh-oo-uh-stree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæʒ u ə stri |
Definition of casuistry
- noun overgeneral reasoning
- His spirit is the opposite of that of Jesuitism or casuistry (Wallace).
- Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
- And then she delivered herself of an amazing piece of casuistry.
- Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
- "I have no leisure for casuistry, nor is it my humor, sir," replied he angrily.
- Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- And now I have said more than I had intended on a question of casuistry.
- Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman
- There might be some casuistry in that, but there was truth as well.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
- On this excuse I settled my point of casuistry in an instant.
- Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope
- Casuistry is nothing but the injection of your own meaning into an old name.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- The system of casuistry was one not solely of Jesuitical invention.
- Extract from : « Pascal » by John Tulloch
- The boy must have immediately perceived the object of his nurse's casuistry.
- Extract from : « Practical Education, Volume I » by Maria Edgeworth
- The strain of casuistry used in this speech is very remarkable.
- Extract from : « The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar » by William Shakespeare
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