Crossword-Solution: CASUISTRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Casuistry | a. | The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. |
| Casuistry | a. | Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “CASUISTRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Specious reasoning | 2 answers |
| speciousness | 12 answers |
| spuriousness | 12 answers |
| deceptiveness | 13 answers |
| sophism | 18 answers |
| sophistry | 24 answers |
| falsity | 26 answers |
| hollowness | 27 answers |
| illogicality | 43 answers |
| falseness | 47 answers |
| Fallacy | 67 answers |
| hypocrisy | 68 answers |
| delusion | 71 answers |
| equivocation | 79 answers |
| inaccuracy | 80 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CASUISTRY (5)
Mallet was a woman of an exquisite moral tone, it was not that she had inherited her temper from an ancestry with a turn for casuistry.
The direct use of violence and stratagem was early and universally condemned; but no nation has yet got rid of that kind of robbery which acts through talent, labor, and possession, and which is the source of all the dilemmas of casuistry and the innumerable contradictions of jurisprudence.
They were athletes, scholars, and gentlemen, nor can I ever remember any examples of that casuistry with which they are reproached.
Was it simply that Elizabeth was one of that rare few who can touch pitch and not be defiled?--or was it, I have sometimes wondered, an unconscious and after all a sound casuistry that had saved Elizabeth's soul, an instinctive philosophy that taught her, so to say, to lay a Sigurd's sword between her soul and body, and to argue that nothing can defile the body without the consent of the soul.
Bred to casuistry, and well accustomed to practise the ambidexter ingenuity of the bar, it cost him little trouble to soften the features of the tumult which he had been at first so anxious to exaggerate.
Quotes with CASUISTRY (3)
Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.
Live the lifestyle instead of paying lip service to the lifesytle. Live with commitment. With emotional content. Live whatever life you choose honestly. Give up this renaissance man, dilettante bullshit of doing a lot of different things (and none of them very well by real standards). Get to the guts of one thing; accept, without casuistry, the responsability of making a choice.
Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was the devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!” he repeated with gloomy insistence. “I know it all, I have thought it all over and over and whispered it all over to myself, lying there in the dark.… I've argued it all over with myself, every point of it, and I know it all, all! And how sick, how sick I was then of going over it all! I kept wanting to forget it and make a new beginning, Sonia, and leave off thinking. And you …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).