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Noun: Jesuit order
  1. 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
    - Society of Jesus

Type of: monastic order, order

Encyclopedia: Jesuit order

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