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
He was a mystic pietist; religion blending with poetry coloured his whole mind; revelation, nature, and art, were for him one and indivisible.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
The pietist has dishonoured himself to no purpose.
From Rationalism by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
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
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