The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pietistic \Pi`e*tis"tic\, Pietistical \Pi`e*tis"tic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt,
affectedly or demonstratively religious.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to pietism, especially that associated with (w: Luther) and his followers; excessively pious.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to Pietism; "the Pietistic movement" [syn: pietistical]
excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile" [syn: holier-than-thou, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous]
Usage examples of "pietistic".
Literature, with its captivating notes, had well-nigh destroyed what was left of the old Pietistic fervor.
He was originally a Roman Catholic priest, but his Pietistic inclination precluded him from the favor of his less devout brethren.
Even the celebrated Sistine Madonna is more intellectual than pietistic, a Christian Minerva ruling rather than helping to save the world.
He was a singer of lyrics and pastorals, a lover of the material beauty about him, and it is because he passed by the pietistic, the classic, the literary, and showed the beauty of physical life as an art motive that he is called the Faun of the Renaissance.
For though the religious subject was still largely used, the religious or pietistic belief was not with the Venetians any more than with Correggio.
The pietistic, the fervent, and the devout were not so conspicuous as the morose, the ghastly, and the horrible.
There was nothing of the ethereal, the spiritual, the pietistic, or the pathetic about him.
Similarly, Protestant academies in France attended more to science than did Roman Catholic ones, and Pietistic secondary schools and universities in Germany characteristically leaned toward science.
In the course of a life largely devoted to the study of pietistic phenomena, I have never met a single woman who cared an authentic damn for the actual heathen.
It is not pietistic simpering that will feed the spirit of Christendom, but a steady church-patronage of the most skilful and original motion picture artists.
In his monographic works also, he endeavours to examine impartially the history of dogma, and to acquire the historic stand-point between the estimate of the orthodox dogmatists and that of Gottfried Arnold Mosheim, averse to all fault-finding and polemic, and abhorring theological crudity as much as pietistic narrowness and undevout Illuminism, aimed at an actual correct knowledge of history, in accordance with the principle of Leibnitz, that the valuable elements which are everywhere to be found in history must be sought out and recognised.