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Pietism
[ pahy-i-tiz-uhm ]
noun
- a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- the principles and practices of the Pietists.
- (lowercase) intensity of religious devotion or feeling.
- (lowercase) exaggeration or affectation of piety.
Synonyms: sanctimony
Pietism
1/ ˈpaɪɪˌtɪzəm /
noun
- history a reform movement in the German Lutheran Churches during the 17th and 18th centuries that strove to renew the devotional ideal
pietism
2/ ˈpaɪɪˌtɪzəm /
noun
- a less common word for piety
- excessive, exaggerated, or affected piety or saintliness
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Derived Forms
- ˈPietist, noun
- ˌpieˈtistic, adjective
- ˈpietist, noun
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Other Words From
- Pie·tist noun
- pie·tistic pie·tisti·cal adjective
- pie·tisti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
With the same charms as Mademoiselle de Voss, she had the same jumble of pietism and virtue.
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Brought up in an atmosphere of pietism, the natural reaction led him into a kind of romantic atheistic unbelief.
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Pietism and sentimentalism have supplanted in a large measure the ethical.
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The severe pietism of that belief had never strongly appealed to him.
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As to religion, Sainte-Beuve, having had his phase of pietism even, ended by becoming a blank unbeliever.
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