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

"Oh, you're a pietist," was the excited answer.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Things then took a turn with him, and from a poor persecuted pietist he became a close client of Royalty, and almost the chief of court favorites in an age of favoritism.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

He was not a pietist, and there was no great religious feeling in his work.

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