Meanings of pietists in English

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.

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

Tartuffe and Harpagon, in fact, are made each to whip himself and his class, the false pietists, and the insanely covetous.

His pietists are more humanly interesting than those of Daudet, and the little drama which they set in motion is more genuinely pathetic.

The second assault, more brutal and cowardly than the first, followed as the logical sequence of that powwow of pietists, peddlers and politicians.

She had, he said, begun to share in the extravagant notions of a group of pietists whose leader was that detestable fellow, Ingram.

The believers and the unbelievers, the pietists and the atheists may speak alike freely; the spirit of persecution shall be forever banished from Prussia.

But the German Pietists preached a renunciation that resembled Christian asceticism.

The reveries of the Pietists have long been confounded with those of the Illuminés.

The ancient custom was to kiss on the mouth; the Pietists have carefully preserved it.

H. M. Muhlenberg endeavored to transplant to America the modified Lutheranism of the Halle Pietists.

He was not content with the work accomplished by Spener, Franke, and other leading Pietists.

The Pietists were not worried by the apparent inconsistency.

He was Director of the University of Halle, and defended the Pietists from the standpoint of statesmanship.

He was condemned by the Pietists because he had never experienced their sudden and spasmodic method of conversion.