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

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.

The pietist father of the painter made himself champion of the cause, and delivered a speech at a meeting of the Bible Society, wherein he proclaimed Luther the great witness of truth.

From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington

She did not, like the pathological pietist, test its pulse or temperature.

From Mariquita A Novel by Ayscough, John