pietist

Example Sentences

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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

In Germany, on the other hand, the rationalist movement had always had over against it the great foil and counterpoise of the pietist movement.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell

A friend of his mother’s, Susanne Katharina von Klettenberg, who belonged to pietist circles in Frankfort, turned the boy’s thoughts to religious mysticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

She did not, like the pathological pietist, test its pulse or temperature.

From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John