Sentence example with the word 'casuistic'

casuistic

Last update: July 1, 2015


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Becket's opposition rested upon a casuistic interpretation of the canon law, and an extravagant conception of the dignity attaching to the priesthood; he showed, moreover, a disposition to quibble, to equivocate, and to make promises which he had no intention of fulfilling.   [Please select]

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He is a casuistic moralist, if not a Shorter Catechist, as Mr Henley put it in his clever sonnet.   [Please select]

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This is the position of the casuistic mystic moralist and not of the man who sees only the visible world.   [Please select]

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Her casuistic responses which were asked for in two moral situations, verbally presented, Test XXI, were rather vacillating, but evidently sound.   [Please select]

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