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pi·e·tism

(pī′ĭ-tĭz′əm)

1. Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.

2. Affected or exaggerated piety.

3. Pietism A reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 1600s and 1700s, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion.

[German Pietismus, from Latin pietās, piety; see piety.]

pi′e·tist n.

pi′e·tis′tic adj.

pi′e·tis′ti·cal·ly adv.

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pietism

(ˈpaɪɪˌtɪzəm)

1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a less common word for piety

2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) excessive, exaggerated, or affected piety or saintliness

ˈpietist n

ˌpieˈtistic, ˌpieˈtistical adj

Pietism

(ˈpaɪɪˌtɪzəm)

(Historical Terms) history a reform movement in the German Lutheran Churches during the 17th and 18th centuries that strove to renew the devotional ideal

ˈPietist n

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Pi•e•tism

(ˈpaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm)

n.

1. a movement in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.

2. (l.c.) intensity of religious devotion or feeling.

3. (l.c.) exaggeration or affectation of piety.

[1690–1700; < German Pietismus < Latin piet(ās) piety + German -ismus -ism]

Pi′e•tist, n.

pi`e•tis′tic, pi`e•tis′ti•cal, adj.

pi`e•tis′ti•cal•ly, adv.

Pietism

1. a movement, begun in the 17th-century German Lutheran Church, exalting the practice of personal piety over religious orthodoxy and ritual.
2. the principles and practices of the Pietists. Also called Spenerism. — Piëtist, n. — Pietistic, Pietistical, adj.

pietism

noun

A state of often extreme religious ardour:

devotion, devoutness, piety, piousness, religionism, religiosity, religiousness.

Translations

pietismo

pietism

[ˈpaɪətɪzəm] N → piedad f, devoción f (pej) → beatería f, mojigatería f

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pietism

Pietism → der Pietismus

(= piety) → Pietät f, → Frömmigkeit f; (pej) → Frömmelei f

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pietism

[ˈpaɪɪˌtɪz/əm] n → pietismo

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Affected by European surrealism and Czech pietism, she focused her camera on bizarre shop windows, shop signs, forlorn city concerns or chipped walls, finding in them the charm of the unwanted.

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Generously highlighted with biblical quotes, the pastoral was high in pietism, acceptance and self-effacement.

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Rather than showy pietism, the film convincingly suggests, these gestures are steeped in sincerity and humble service.

'Pope Francis' offers portrait of faith, conviction

(12) The views and sensibilities of von Biihren are yet to be studied in detail (his extensive correspondence in German remains virtually unexamined by scholars), yet his apparent one-time study in Konigsberg, another hotbed of Pietism, may be indicative here.

The "German" Reign of Empress Anna: Russia's Disciplinary Moment?

"The forces of hopped-up pietistic [William Jennings] Bryanism had captured the Democratic Party and changed its character forever from its ancient laissez-faire principles." Concurrently, "[William] McKinleyite pragmatism had transformed the Republican Party from the home of statist pietism...

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The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment.

The Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community: Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment

Sefer a[cedilla][currency]asidim, the compendium of pietism and ethics that reflects Jewish life in Germany at this time, also acknowledges the role of shadkhanim.

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Religion as an Agent of Change: Crusades -- Reformation -- Pietism

Cooperative salvation retains four emphases learned from Anabaptism and Pietism: it takes seriously the life and ministry of Jesus; it values community; it is concerned with the here and now; and it shares early Anabaptist optimism that human beings are capable of participating in their salvation.

Cooperative Salvation: A Brethren View of Atonement

Yet L.'s translations of two Schuman letters to Jacob Johann Schutz (one of the founders of Lutheran Pietism), selections from her important work, Eukleria, excellent illustrative quotations, and meaty footnotes are all useful.

Sacrifice and Delight in the Mystical Theologies of Anna Maria van Schurman and Madame Jeanne Guyon

Pietism was a movement within Lutheranism that began in the late 17th century, reached its zenith in the mid-18th century, and declined through the 19th century, and had almost vanished in America by the end of the 20th century.

Scandinavian Pietists

While there are conflicting views on the financial condition of Kant's family during his childhood and youth,2 the strong influence of Pietism and morality remain constant (the first being the religious faith of the family and the second his mother's influence).

Noun	1.	Pietism - 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion religious movement - a movement intended to bring about religious reforms Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
	2.	pietism - exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal religiosity, religiousism, religionism devoutness, religiousness - piety by virtue of being devout