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

Both were disciples of a clergyman at Rouville, who was an enthusiastic pietist and friend of St Cyran. 

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

A boy can hardly be a perfect savage, nor a man a money-maker or a pietist, who has acquired sufficient command of an instrument to play upon it with pleasure.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various

In England, no doubt, as in every other European country, there were, as Mr. Vaughan observes, 'Scattered little groups of friends, who nourished a hidden devotion by the study of pietist and mystical writings....

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)