pietistic
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Some of the Pietistic hymnists, notably Woltersdorf, were given to the use of inordinate language and even sensuous descriptions for the purpose of arousing intense emotion.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
Gottlieb was getting rid of his long-haired, Pietistic ways, and beginning to look at the world with his natural eyes, instead of through the blue spectacles he had acquired at Erlangen, or elsewhere.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
In some respects it resembled the earlier Pietistic movement in Germany and the Wesleyan revival in England, except that it was more conservative than either.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
Often they reveal a warmth and tenderness of feeling that would have merited a place for them in any Pietistic hymn-book.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
Pietistic Halle cast its skin, and along with Berlin took front rank among the promoters of the “Illumination.”
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
