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
He is that most tragic figure—an enforced pietist, a thwarted voluptuary.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
He was the fourth of nine children of a devoted pietist household.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
Some writer has pointed out a certain analogy between the sweet Derbyshire Methodist and the gentle pietist whose confessions form a very curious chapter of 'Wilhelm Meister.'
From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot
