Sentence example with the word 'casuistical'

casuistical

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Medieval economics was little more than a casuistical system of elaborate and somewhat artificial rules of conduct.   [Please select]

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Here was a casuistical proposition thrown at my head by the last person I should have suspected of doing so.   [Please select]

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[405] Here Bentham lays down the rule that punishment should rise with the strength of the temptation, a theory which leads to some curious casuistical problems.   [Please select]

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Stevenson was all too casuistical (though not in the exclusively bad sense) for this; and so he was not dramatic, though _Weir of Hermiston_ promised something like an advance to it, and _St Ives_ did, in my idea, yet more.   [Please select]

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A law-book never recites the utility, the grounds, the casuistical antecedents of a law: for if it did so it would lose the imperative tone, the "thou shall," on which obedience is based.   [Please select]

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Metaphysical talent, turned into theological channels, gave birth to some dogmatic and casuistical writings of unquestionable power.   [Please select]

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