pietistic

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It’s also a deeply spiritual film, without being pietistic or sanctimonious.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021

They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2020

Less interested in blunt proselytizing than more open-ended explorations of faith and its challenges, Affirm films have gratifyingly avoided the kind of pietistic Sunday-school pageantry that characterizes so many motion pictures of the genre.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2018

German Protestant migrants formed several pietistic societies: communities that stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

His pietistic movement won considerable way among the Catholic laity, and even attracted some fifty or sixty priests.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various