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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

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 Brann, William Cowper

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 Brann, William Cowper

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 Heyse, Paul

But C�sar's emotions were walled in by his pietistical views.

From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Caine, Hall, Sir