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Definition of Pietist
1. n. One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.
Definition of Pietist
1. Noun. A supporter of pietism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pietist
1. a pious person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pietist
Literary usage of Pietist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bismarck, the Man & the Statesman: Being the Reflections and Reminiscences by Otto Bismarck (1899)
"... had in bad humour resigned his post as adjutant. The Prince spoke of him as
a ' pietist.' 7. —What does your Royal Highness mean by a pietist ? ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... a pietist sect of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries founded by Jean de
Labadie, who was born at Bourg, near Bordeaux, 13 February, 1610, ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"She was so many-sided—a reformer, teacher, pietist, politician, actress—that a
true estimate of her character is difficult. ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"The pietist Controversies after the Pounding of the Halle University (§ 159,
8).—Pietism, condemned by the orthodox universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg, ..."
5. The Reformed Quarterly Review by Thomas G. Apple (1892)
"SAMUEL GULDIN, pietist AND PIONEER.* BY REV. JH DUBBS, DD, IT is pleasant to put
on record the following facts concerning the personal history of Samuel ..."
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