Jesuit order

Noun

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Society of Jesus

Hypernyms

order monastic order

Examples

Protestant success, at first amazingly rapid, was checked mainly as a resultant of Loyola's creation of the Jesuit order. Ignatius of Loyola

In 1556, St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus — the Jesuit order of Catholic priests and brothers — died in Rome. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

jesuit congregation jesuit fraternity jesuit institute jesuit organization jesuit society jesuit society of jesus