Meanings of pietist in English

Her eyes had the look of a dreaming pietist for the moment.

That would mean handing us over to the crown prince-thepietist!

Your genuine pietist would find a mystical sense in thimblerig.

The pietist at March, who made the image of Saint Isolda, may have spread the news.

But there is no pietist like your reformed rake; so Falve left the huckster's shop vowing vengeance.

Gertrude was said to be a pietist.

He was equally far removed from the excesses of the legalist, the pietist, the ascetic, and the enthusiast.

Goethe, during his illness, received great attention from Fräulein von Klettenberg, a friend of his mother's, a pietist of the Moravian school.

The European pietist embraced the religious tenets of the Asiatic monk, which centred in the propitiation of the Deity by works of penance.

The family was pietist, and the future philosopher entered the university of his native city in 1740, with a view to studying theology.

Raboin, however, had followed Marie's narrative with dilated eyes and the passion of a pietist of limited intelligence, ever haunted by the idea of hell.

Thus do the German Moravians uphold the Pietist ideals of Zinzendorf.

Naturally enough, perhaps, the devout pietists regarded the cheerful worldlings as lost beyond hope of redemption.

So was Unitarianism, and now we do not seek in the Boston churches for the profound pietists.

Pietist Lutheranism did offer one outstanding precedent.

Fortunately for him, the monks are dead and buried whom he lauds so much when contrasted with our modern pietists.