casuistical

Example Sentences

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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 Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring

Hence it is that he is copied even in the casual mistakes he made; and all the casuistical works recently published have inserted in their pages those mistakes.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by

Now I must stop without satisfactorily answering your question, without entering into any casuistical questions concerning conformity such as you suggest.

From Letters to His Friends by Robinson, Forbes

It has sometimes been thought of as an outward law, sometimes as an inward disposition; and each of these rival conceptions has developed a casuistical method of its own.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

It is a theory and practice of purity, on a level with the analogous rules in the laws of Manu, and in some points even more subtle and casuistical.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max