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Meanings of pietism in English
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Examples for "pietists"
Examples for "pietists"
1
Naturally enough, perhaps, the devout pietists regarded the cheerful worldlings as lost beyond hope of redemption.
2
So was Unitarianism, and now we do not seek in the Boston churches for the profound pietists.
3
Fortunately for him, the monks are dead and buried whom he lauds so much when contrasted with our modern pietists.
4
Tartuffe and Harpagon, in fact, are made each to whip himself and his class, the false pietists, and the insanely covetous.
5
His pietists are more humanly interesting than those of Daudet, and the little drama which they set in motion is more genuinely pathetic.
1
Her eyes had the look of a dreaming pietist for the moment.
2
That would mean handing us over to the crown prince-thepietist!
3
Your genuine pietist would find a mystical sense in thimblerig.
4
The pietist at March, who made the image of Saint Isolda, may have spread the news.
5
But there is no pietist like your reformed rake; so Falve left the huckster's shop vowing vengeance.
Usage of pietism in English
1
The answers which æstheticism and pietism gave to rationalism were incomplete.
2
This new pietism of his revolted her almost to physical sickness.
3
Like all violent revivals of pietism, it produced a no less violent reaction.
4
And yet through all her pietism surely she had been right!
5
Want of taste is a defect inseparable from false pietism.
6
They love truth, and honesty, and consistency, and abhor everything like sneaking, unmanly pietism?
7
He displeased the Conservatives by his Liberalism, the coarser Radicals by his pietism and culture.
8
She recognised in it the selfishness she had too fatally learned to detect in all pietism.
9
It was a revival of the pietism of the Middle Ages, with an external reform of manners.
10
Those of us who have no form of pietism feel cut off from making the attempt at all.
11
From this time a mystic pietism became the avowed force of his political, as of his private actions.
12
They only aimed at a dreamy pietism,-atbest their own individual salvation, rather than the salvation of others.
13
There was much in their speech and in their conduct which would outrage the standards of a narrow pietism.
14
Authoritarianism, clericalism, vanity, pietism, hypocrisy and pride have been the toxic mix that has devastated the church in Ireland.
15
Even the Holy Alliance, the pet offspring of his pietism, does not deserve the sinister reputation it has since obtained.
16
She returned to Nohant in 1820, and soon threw off her pietism in the outdoor exercises of a wholesome country life.
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