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

Once, taken to task by a pietist, Solomon defended himself by the quibble that Hebrew has no vowels.

From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel

In their lively minds she reawakened the age-old issue between artist and pietist.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

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