Society of Jesus
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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
Types & categories
- monastic order hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Jesuit member meronym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | Jesuit |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | monastic order |