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Definition of Casuists
1. casuist [n] - See also: casuist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Casuists
Literary usage of Casuists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Donne refused upon the ground that according to the casuists a man ought not to
take orders unless the glory of God were his first end. ..."
2. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1856)
"He decides, as all the old casuists did, that a promise extorted by a robber is
binding. Sanderson was the most celebrated of the English casuists. ..."
3. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"... and Epiphanias, and many others, were so remarkable in ancient history, who
yet, if we were to speak in the style and language of these modern casuists, ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... hunting, &c. and such like disports and recreations (which our casuists tax) ;
are the sole exercise almost, and ordinary actions of our Nobility, ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... on the other hand, they could not relax the usual discipline of the church on
the strength of a few unguarded opinions of too indulgent casuists. ..."
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