casuistical
Example Sentences
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A Jesuit, of whom she sought counsel in her dilemma, suggested a casuistical compromise.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
You see, Fossbrooke, what a casuistical companion I've given you.
From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever
He would never compromise or palter with the truth, either by way of suppression, or exaggeration, or casuistical refinement.
From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
In such a number of casuistical writers, it may be imagined, that some have erred.
From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas
The article makes no attempt to give a detailed, casuistical examination of the matter of ethical theory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
