Definition of Quietisms

1. Noun. (plural of quietism) ¹

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Definition of Quietisms

1. quietism [n] - See also: quietism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quietisms

quieted
quieten
quieten down
quietened
quietener
quieteners
quietening
quietens
quieter
quieters
quietest
quieting
quietings
quietish
quietism
quietisms
quietist
quietistic
quietists
quietive
quietives
quietly
quietness
quietnesses
quiets
quietsome
quietude
quietudes
quietus
quietuses

Literary usage of Quietisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life and Religious Opinions and Experience of Madame de La Mothe Guyon by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1849)
"... in which he endeavors to point out the principles * Relation de L'Origine, du Progre"s, et de la Condemnation du Quietisms en France, Livre Premiere. ..."

2. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1908)
"... regard for the will of God as law of all life and action, without lending the least countenance to indolent quietisms or the vacuities of an idle piety. ..."

3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Those who belong to this school are known as 'Quietisms' because their way of attaining to the degree of enlightenment that leads to Nirvana consists not in ..."

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