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

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

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 Farrar, Adam Storey

Have you been to such a—I had nearly written silent—concert, in a Norwegian coast town of somewhat pietist savour?

From The Bridal March; One Day by Gosse, Edmund