Crossword clues for pietist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pietist \Pi"e*tist\, n. [Cf. G. pietist, F. pi['e]tiste. See Piety.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Pietist, 1690s; see pietism + -ist. As an adjective from 1705.
Wiktionary
n. A supporter of pietism.
Usage examples of "pietist".
He was not a pietist, and there was no great religious feeling in his work.
As described by Stilling, the guests, chiefly consisting of persons of the pietist persuasion, were as remarkable for their appearance as for their opinions, and the artist who accompanied Lavater in his travels busily sketched their heads throughout the evening.
She was no pietist, but there is nowadays coming into existence a class of persons who substitute for the old religious acerbity a narrow and oppressive zeal for good works of purely human sanction, and to this order Miss Lant might be said to belong.
In his shorter tales an affinity may be felt with the parables of Hasidism, that pietist movement within Judaism which emphasized, over against the law of orthodoxy, mystic joy and divine immanence.
English city life, and its spread onto the Continent through the Pietist movement.
But he did not differ from even the strictest German pietist in ordering his disciples to immerse in the ritual bath, to fast, and to abstain from sexual intercourse before sitting in meditation.
He was Director of the University of Halle, and defended the Pietists from the standpoint of statesmanship.
Old terms, which had been used by the first Lutherans and Reformed in common, and by the Pietists with such effectiveness, were now abandoned for the modern ones of these innovators.
The devoted Pietists, who were now in the background, looked on in amazement as they trembled for the pillars of faith.
Following in the wake of the departing pietists, I dragged myself along the field paths in the direction of the blue strip of forest on the banks of the Vetluga.
Among the many dissenting religious groups, assembling at Svetloyar, each with their own books, hymns and creed, the Urenevsk pietists stood out most markedly.
The late revolutionists declare vengeance against these people, the pietists, as they call them, and that if the war breaks out again, they are to be the first to be cut off.
But the present king gives them their liberty and his protection, and has openly said the pietists have saved his country.
You know that the pietists and priests charge me with being a heretic, because I do not think as they think, and believe as they believe.
I might, perhaps, have closed my eyes to the mad follies of these so-called pietists, if they had not drawn my poor secretary into the toils.