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CASUIST Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CASUIST is one skilled in or given to casuistry.
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Casuistry - Wikipedia
Casuistry is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending abstract rules from a particular case, and reapplying ...
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casuist - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · (ethics) A person who resolves cases of conscience or moral duty. · Someone who attempts to specify exact and precise rules for the direction of every ...
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casuist
casuist (ˈkæzjuːɪst, ˈkæʒ(j)uːɪst) [a. F. casuiste (Sp. casuista, It. casista), f. L. cāsu-s case: see -ist.] A theologian (or other person) who studies and resolves cases of conscience or doubtful questions regarding duty and conduct. (Often with a sinister application: see casuistry.)1609 B. Jonso...
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Definition: Casuist, TeacherServe®, National Humanities Center
A casuist is one who uses specious or excessively subtle reasoning intending to rationalize or mislead.
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50 Synonyms & Antonyms for CASUIST | Thesaurus.com
casuist · actor · backslider · bigot · bluffer · charlatan · cheat · crook · decoy · dissembler · dissimulator · fake · faker · four-flusher · fraud · humbug ...
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casuist
casuistn (fml usu derog 文, 通常作贬义) person who is skilled in casuistry 诡辩家.
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CASUIST | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
someone who uses intelligent-sounding but false arguments to trick people or to get what they want: You'd have to be a casuist of rare skill ...
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Casuistry | Ethics & Moral Decision Making - Britannica
Casuistry, in ethics, a case-based method of reasoning. It is particularly employed in field-specific branches of professional ethics such as business ethics ...
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CASUIST Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
noun · an oversubtle or disingenuous reasoner, especially in questions of morality. · a person who studies and resolves moral problems of judgment or conduct ...
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CASUIST definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
a person, esp a theologian, who attempts to resolve moral dilemmas by the application of general rules and the careful distinction of special cases.
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Robert Sanderson
Sanderson (Nova Scotia) (1696 – after 1761), merchant and politician of Nova Scotia
Robert Sanderson (theologian) (1587–1663), English theologian and casuist
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William Fenner
religious principles about 1626–7, and travelled about for some months, preaching from place to place, and Benjamin Brook states that he was consulted as a casuist
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composuist
† comˈposuist Obs. rare—0. [erroneously f. compose, after casuist, etc.] A composer.1816 in Pickering, whence in some later Dicts.
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Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset
He retained this chair until 1830, acquiring the reputation of an expert professor and consummate casuist.
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