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quietist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun quietist has 1 sense
- quietist(n = noun.person) - a religious mystic who follows quietism; is a kind of mystic, religious mystic
Derived form noun quietism1
CIDE DICTIONARY
quietist, n. [Cf. F. quiétiste.].
One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism. [1913 Webster]
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