text: Very early , owing in part to English Protestant propagandists , the word Jesuitical came to characterize a form of argument designed less to seek the truth than to make a case , a form of argument that was aggressive and clever but perhaps not always sincere--indeed , one that was at times cunningly equivocal or downright deceitful .
  
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  The word Jesuitical had come to mean an deceitful , aggressive form of argument .