pietist
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Dr Ganiel said "pietist" evangelicals - those who had decided that the world of politics was simply too grubby for Christians to take part in - could be reinforced by Mrs Robinson's demise.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2010
No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor was he slow to perceive that this liberal pietist was cast in an unusual mold.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
W. Law's Serious Call, and Christian Perfection.496.Viz., by means of the Moravians of Herrnhut, whose founder, Zinzendorf, himself sprang from the pietist movement.497.Zech. iv.
From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar
She did not, like the self-conscious pietist, listen to it.
From Mariquita A Novel by John Ayscough
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