pietist
Example Sentences
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Dr Ganiel said "pietist" evangelicals - those who had decided that the world of politics was simply too grubby for Christians to take part in - could be reinforced by Mrs Robinson's demise.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2010
No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
A boy can hardly be a perfect savage, nor a man a money-maker or a pietist, who has acquired sufficient command of an instrument to play upon it with pleasure.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
Ritschl had seen much of mysticism in pietist circles.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
It subdues the flesh and the world, and calls down Heaven to bless the happy pietist.
