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Pietism   Listen
noun
Pietism  n.  
1.
The principle or practice of the Pietists.
2.
Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion. "The Schöne Seele, that ideal of gentle pietism, in "Wilhelm Meister.""






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"Pietism" Quotes from Famous Books



... these fragments, absently at first, then with repulsion. This Anglican pietism, so well fed, so narrowly sheltered, which measured the universe with its foot-rule, seemed to her quasi-Catholic eye merely fatuous and hypocritical. It is not by such forces, she thought, that the true world of men and women ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... stands behind her, with eyes lifted to the sky. They are all splendid young Amazons, recalling Moretto's fine St. Justina of the Vienna Gallery. There is no trace of ascetism in their strong, well-developed figures, and in their faces no suggestion of an unhealthy pietism. ...
— The Madonna in Art • Estelle M. Hurll

... Hegelians, in their fight with the pious orthodox, abandoned little by little, that marked philosophical reserve regarding the burning questions of the day, which had up to that time secured for their teachings State toleration and even protection, and as in 1840 orthodox pietism and absolutist feudal reaction ascended the throne with Frederick William IV., open partisanship became unavoidable. The fight was still maintained with philosophical weapons, but no longer along abstract philosophical lines; they went straight to deny ...
— Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy • Frederick Engels



Words linked to "Pietism" :   religiosity, Deutschland, religiousism, pietistic, devoutness, pietistical, Federal Republic of Germany, Germany, FRG, religious movement, religionism



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