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

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

Evidently, though a cultured woman, she was not a pietist.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann

He was not a pietist, and there was no great religious feeling in his work.

From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by Van Dyke, John Charles