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pietism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pietism has 2 senses
- pietism(n = noun.group) Array - 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion; Array is a kind of religious movement
- pietism(n = noun.attribute) religionism, religiosity, religiousism - exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal; Array is a kind of devoutness, religiousness
Derived forms adjective pietistic1, adjective pietistical1
Derived forms adjective pietistic2, adjective pietistical2
CIDE DICTIONARY
pietism, n. [Cf. G. pietismus, F. piétisme.].
- The principle or practice of the Pietists. [1913 Webster]
- Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion. [1913 Webster]"The Schöne Seele, that ideal of gentle pietism, in “Wilhelm Meister.”" [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pietism, n.
1 a pious sentiment. b an exaggerated or affected piety.
2 (esp. as Pietism) hist. a movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church in the 17th c.
1 a pious sentiment. b an exaggerated or affected piety.
2 (esp. as Pietism) hist. a movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church in the 17th c.
Derivative
pietist n. pietistic adj. pietistical adj.
Etymology
G Pietismus (as PIETY)
ROGET THESAURUS
pietism
Impiety
N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.
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