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
"Oh, you're a pietist," was the excited answer.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
He is that most tragic figure—an enforced pietist, a thwarted voluptuary.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
