Thesaurus / pietistic

pietistic

How to use pietistic in a sentence

Pecuniary profit he had never sought, and its pursuit he scorned.196 His views were dynamico-organic, pietistic, and antagonistic.

As long as the work was mostly in country villages the preaching was naturally of the Pietistic type.

It shows that there is some individuality developed among them, and that they will not become too exclusively pietistic.

High office could only be acquired by becoming a servile instrument of the pietistic party, which was headed by the king.

He never stooped to pietistic clap-trap, or chanted the jaunty chauvinism that has so often caused the Hoosier stars to blink.

There was a famous squire in Hertfordshire whose love of his dinner was constantly at war with his pietistic traditions.

With his Pietistic views Brorson naturally deplored such a misuse of the season.

The end was that he went regularly every Sunday to church, and the house was flooded with pietistic writings.

The later German hymn-writers of the 19th century belong, generally, to the revived “Pietistic” school.

His Moravian origin and Pietistic training he could never forget; nor do we believe he attempted it.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985