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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Modern Latin
Origin: Jesuita, from Late Latin Jesus

Jesuit

 noun
     
Related topics: Christianity
Je‧su‧it [countable]
RRC a man who is a member of the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus
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