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Definition of Pietistical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Pietism. "The Pietistic movement"

2. Adjective. Excessively or hypocritically pious. "A sickening sanctimonious smile"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pietistical

pies piesesthesia pieshop pieshops piesimeter piesis piet piet-my-vrou pieta pietas

pieties pietism pietisms pietist pietistic pietistical (current term) pietistically pietists pietra dura pietra serena

piets piety pietàs piewipe piewipes piewoman piewomen piezo piezo- piezo effect

Literary usage of Pietistical

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

1. The American Quarterly Register by American Education Society (1839)
"The pietistical doctrine long reigned uninterruptedly at the university of Halle. Wolff, whom we have already mentioned, succeeded, however, at last, ..."

2. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog, Francis Joseph Pabisch, Thomas Sebastian Byrne (1892)
"This pietistical sect rejected the authority of Protestant synods and the Evangelical Alliance quite as courageously as the sectaries of the same name had ..."

3. The American Quarterly Register by American Education Society (1839)
"The pietistical doctrine long reigned uninterruptedly at the university of Halle. Wolff, whom we have already mentioned, succeeded, however, at last, ..."

4. History of the Church in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, John Fletcher Hurst (1869)
"... but especially the efforts of tract societies and similar institutions, which were described as pietistical. He came into contact with prominent German ..."

5. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1891)
"In the year 1842 a division took place in the pietistical movement then going on in this ... The old pietistical revival is now almost at an end ; not a few ..."

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