Antonyms for casuistry


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kazh-oo-uh-stree
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæʒ u ə stri


Definition of casuistry

  • noun overgeneral reasoning
Example sentences :
  • His spirit is the opposite of that of Jesuitism or casuistry (Wallace).
  • Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
  • And then she delivered herself of an amazing piece of casuistry.
  • Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini
  • "I have no leisure for casuistry, nor is it my humor, sir," replied he angrily.
  • Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • And now I have said more than I had intended on a question of casuistry.
  • Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman
  • There might be some casuistry in that, but there was truth as well.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • On this excuse I settled my point of casuistry in an instant.
  • Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope
  • Casuistry is nothing but the injection of your own meaning into an old name.
  • Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
  • The system of casuistry was one not solely of Jesuitical invention.
  • Extract from : « Pascal » by John Tulloch
  • The boy must have immediately perceived the object of his nurse's casuistry.
  • Extract from : « Practical Education, Volume I » by Maria Edgeworth
  • The strain of casuistry used in this speech is very remarkable.
  • Extract from : « The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar » by William Shakespeare

Synonyms for casuistry

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