pietist

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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

Have you been to such a—I had nearly written silent—concert, in a Norwegian coast town of somewhat pietist savour?

From The Bridal March; One Day by Gosse, Edmund

He was a mystic pietist; religion blending with poetry coloured his whole mind; revelation, nature, and art, were for him one and indivisible.

From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington

Here he had at first to suffer a sort of martyrdom as a rigid pietist swimming against the orthodox current.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.