Pietism
noun
a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
Example Sentences
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It’s also a deeply spiritual film, without being pietistic or sanctimonious.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
“Like Hollywood — a world so often criticized by the pietistic — these institutions and their leaders celebrate and reward the ‘blessing’ of fame, popularity and influence,” he writes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2021
They could be starchily formal or free-flowing, operatic or pietistic, shameless or scolding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
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
Come, now, my dear Howe, you mean that the analytical and agnostic novelist wants the romantic and pietistic novelist, only for the purpose of breaking a lance with him.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
