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pietist

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pi·e·tism  (p-tzm)
n.
1. Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.
2. Affected or exaggerated piety.
3. Pietism A reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 17th and 18th centuries, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion.
[German Pietismus, from Latin piets, piety; see piety.]
pie·tist n.
pie·tistic adj.
pie·tisti·cal·ly adv.
Translations
pietist
n → Pietist(in) m(f); (= pious person) → frommer Mensch; (pej) → Frömmler(in) m(f)


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Now, as always, Clare's father was sanguine as a child; and though the younger could not accept his parent's narrow dogma he revered his practice, and recognized the hero under the pietist.
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