Movement within Lutheranism.
Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal.
Synonyms
Examples for "religiosity "
Examples for "religiosity "
1 So have some forms of addiction, a bent for novelty-seeking, and religiosity .
2 So is the revival of the pigrimage a sign of increased religiosity ?
3 Once I ventured gently to chaff her about this religiosity of hers.
4 My thesis is about the relationship between types of religiosity and sexism.
5 There, Annie developed an intense religiosity that would later be supplanted by atheism.
1 There is nothing so cruel as formal religionism .
2 There is nothing so blind as formal religionism .
3 The austerity of his manners frightens his old father, who can little comprehend the religionism of the new school.
4 On the other hand, exclusive religionism has too much consciousness of secret sympathy with its avowed antipodes, to enjoy itself much better.
5 So you should not fear joy any more than you fear pain, as some unwise people do, dwarfed by a mistaken religionism .
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 , - at best 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.
Other examples for "pietism"
Grammar, pronunciation and more