SOCIETY OF JESUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Society of Jesus mean? 

• SOCIETY OF JESUS (noun)
  The noun SOCIETY OF JESUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SOCIETY OF JESUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIETY OF JESUS (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Jesuit order; Society of Jesus

Hypernyms ("Society of Jesus" is a kind of...):

monastic order; order (a group of person living under a religious rule)

Meronyms (members of "Society of Jesus"):

Jesuit (a member of the Jesuit order)