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

Evidently, though a cultured woman, she was not a pietist.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

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

He was a painter more than a pietist, and was called by his townsmen "the faultless painter."

From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles