pietistic
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- adjective
- /ˌpaɪəˈtɪstɪk/
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pietista
- The church's services became more pietistic, focusing on individual devotion and personal faith.
Examples
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Thus, the "two parties" in modern Protestantism are, according to Hart, simply two sides of the same pietistic coin.
Academic text (2003) -
For the covenant's members, there are no pietistic hoops to be jumped through.
Academic text (2006) -
One can be pietistic without being Christian.
Blog text (8) -
They and their financial supporters were motivated by pietistic goals.
Academic text (2003) -
At first, I put this inability down to the combination of their Swabian-pietistic and East Prussian origins.
Fiction book (2002) -
For I knew from stories told to me by my parents that neither the pietistic Swabian nor the East Prussian is in any way equipped to actually enjoy either freedom or relaxation.
Fiction book (2002) -
Much as she disagreed with her mother, she envied her simple pietistic faith in the things she saw as the underpinnings of civilization, such as the sterling silver vermouth dropper.
Fiction book (2000) -
Crisp wields the commonplace that justification proceeds "without the works of the Law" in order to cut a swath through the large field of pietistic responsibility: "there is nothing to be done by man to be a preparation for his justification." (n91)
Academic text (2006) -
In eighteenth-century Berlin, the association of religion and social improvement had permitted a reconciliation between the Pietistic emphasis on revelation and the rational grounds for individual development advocated by representatives of the German Aufklärung.
Academic text (1990) -
Whether or not he was aware of it, Rowe's skeletal reminiscence hearkened to the initial forming of a new religious synthesis in South Carolina, one that pietistic German-speaking emigrants like the Giessendanners helped to build.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
About a religious movement that values personal faith and good behaviour
Antonyms
How Pietistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
pietistic = piety (opaque) = piet + istic
The term 'pietistic' is derived from 'piety' but specifically relates to the historical movement of Pietism, which is not immediately clear from the base word.
Etymology
Pietistic comes from the religious movement Pietism, which itself comes from the Latin pietas meaning 'piety' or 'dutiful love'. So pietistic describes a strong, personal religious devotion that guides someone's daily life.