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Still, as the book shows, Deobandis come in many varieties: they can be pietistical and otherworldly, politicised or militant.

When, at eighteen, I entered the university, I instantly formed a pietistical society, which behaved almost like a students' consistory.

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

Nor was the general state of religion in Maryland at the time of their experiment such as to foster a profoundly pietistical community.

The true religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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