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pietism

English

Etymology

From piety +? -ism.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?p???t?z(?)m/

Noun

pietism (countable and uncountable, plural pietisms)

  1. (Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 739:
      From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education.

Derived terms

  • church pietism
  • radical pietism

Related terms

  • pietist

Translations

Further reading

  • Radical Pietism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French piétisme

Noun

pietism n (uncountable)

  1. pietism

Declension

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piosity

English

Noun

piosity (plural piosities)

  1. Affected or exaggerated piety.
    • 2003, John F. Deane, in Knock, from Manhandling the Deity, Carcanet, page 23
      We have since / learned to scoff at all such drollery, at the stalls / rife with the junk of old piosity

Synonyms

  • sanctimoniousness

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