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Pietism   /pˈitɪzəm/   Listen
Pietism

noun
1.
17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion.
2.
Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal.  Synonyms: religionism, religiosity, religiousism.





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"Pietism" Quotes from Famous Books



... That combination of pietism with money-making, which critics of our national character tell us is so peculiarly British, was well illustrated in the Christian Million of September ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell


Words linked to "Pietism" :   FRG, Germany, Deutschland, pietistic, religious movement, pietistical, devoutness, Federal Republic of Germany, religiousness


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