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

Here he had at first to suffer a sort of martyrdom as a rigid pietist swimming against the orthodox current.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

A boy can hardly be a perfect savage, nor a man a money-maker or a pietist, who has acquired sufficient command of an instrument to play upon it with pleasure.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various

Ritschl had seen much of mysticism in pietist circles.

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