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Definition of Casuistries
1. casuistry [n] - See also: casuistry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Casuistries
Literary usage of Casuistries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Legal Sunday, Its History and Character: Its History and Character by James Trapier Ringgold (1894)
"The encouraging point is that, while the exposure of these old casuistries has
been so complete that judges of the deepest-dyed type of ..."
2. Religious Liberty Library by Religious Liberty Association, Washington, D.C. (1894)
"The encouraging point is that, while the exposure of these old casuistries has
been so complete that judges of the deepest-dyed type of ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... he may work strange deeds before "high Heaven;" that he must beware of the
casuistries of his brain no less than the wild workings of his heart, ..."
4. Life of Charles Reemelin: In German: Carl Gustav Rümelin, from 1814-1892 by Charles Reemelin (1892)
"The audience hears only the casuistries,- they learn them by rote and repeat them
to others. And of course there are no really instructive discourses on ..."
5. Understanding Germany, The Only Way to End War, and Other Essays by Max Eastman (1916)
"Germany's nationalism is more blatant than that of France or England, and the
casuistries into which these serious professors are led by their determination ..."
6. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"These religious animosities I impute to those who call themselves His ministers,
and who engraft their casuistries on the stock of His simple precepts. ..."
7. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"I entreat you not to be carried away by any casuistries or subtle distinctions.
. . . You must look straight before you, turning neither to the right hand ..."
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