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Ah, so you are just semantics-focused autists vexed by a choice of the verb used to describe the ban.
I don't give a shit if they fled and survived in the end. By that logic the Jesuati also survived since their branches persisted until the 19th century in Italy. So they were not decapitated. Fix your sentence.
The point of the sentence was that before banning, they tried putting pressure on their actions, attributing preservations of missions as an offense to the actual government. What makes you think when they banned them they didn't think it was permanent? When the proverbial axe misses the head, the intended action somehow ceases being an attempt at decapitation?
Furthermore autists-san, you didn't answer what the fuck this has to do with the events of the 18th century, and why would the survival of the order down the line be supposed to affect characters trying to preserve it leading up to the ban?