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pietism

[pahy-i-tiz-uhm] / ˈpaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm /


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He “decries Irish society’s conservatism, pietism and blinkered nationalism” in his writing, according to an essay from the Irish Emigration Museum curator Jessica Traynor.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2019

Father James is a modest, deeply humane man of the cloth: gruff, taciturn, utterly innocent of the cruelty, corruption and overweening pietism for which the Catholic church has been criticized in recent years.

From Washington Post

Everything which even remotely smacked of mysticism and morality, of pietism and romanticism, or even of idealism, was suspected and sharply interdicted or bracketed with reservations which sounded actually prohibitive!

From Time Magazine Archive

The girl is obviously intended to personify what is false in Spanish pietism; the uncle signifies the sickness of the ruling classes.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the same charms as Mademoiselle de Voss, she had the same jumble of pietism and virtue.

From German Problems and Personalities by Charles Saroléa


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