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
Here he had at first to suffer a sort of martyrdom as a rigid pietist swimming against the orthodox current.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
Rhetorician, philosopher and man of science, a story-teller wavering between Boccaccio and Hans Andersen, he is above all a stylist, a pietist and a humorist.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
Once, taken to task by a pietist, Solomon defended himself by the quibble that Hebrew has no vowels.
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
