pietistical
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Here you see the end of a nation which shares your pietistical aptitudes.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
I present extracts from the account of Cambronne, which he suspects may have given the pietistical Quakers a pain.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
Nor was the general state of religion in Maryland at the time of their experiment such as to foster a profoundly pietistical community.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Bartlett Burleigh James
So it is with a pietistical and puristical people—they will follow some stupid old bellwether because utterly incapable of independent thought, of individual ratiocination.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
When, at eighteen, I entered the university, I instantly formed a pietistical society, which behaved almost like a students' consistory.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
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