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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pahy-i-tiz-uhm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm

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Définition of pietism

Origin :
  • also Pietism, 1690s, from German Pietismus, originally applied in derision to the movement to revive personal piety in the Lutheran Church, begun in Frankfurt c.1670 by Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705). See piety + -ism.
  • noun devotion
Example sentences :
  • Those of us who have no form of pietism feel cut off from making the attempt at all.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • This and his stay in England gave an Anglican turn to his German pietism.
  • Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther
  • John was a compound of romanticism, pietism, realism, and naturalism.
  • Extract from : « The Son of a Servant » by August Strindberg
  • His Journal was read at home by John's step-mother, who inclined to pietism.
  • Extract from : « The Son of a Servant » by August Strindberg
  • One cannot separate the influence of Pietism and that of the Opera.
  • Extract from : « Handel » by Romain Rolland
  • Pietism and sentimentalism have supplanted in a large measure the ethical.
  • Extract from : « Religion and the War » by Various
  • The answers which æstheticism and pietism gave to rationalism were incomplete.
  • Extract from : « Edward Caldwell Moore » by Edward Moore
  • We may be permitted to try to show the meaning of pietism by a concrete example.
  • Extract from : « Edward Caldwell Moore » by Edward Moore
  • Browning's Christianity is wider than our creeds, and is all the more vitally Christian in that it never sinks into pietism.
  • Extract from : « An Introduction to the Study of Browning » by Arthur Symons
  • This pietism, nowhere else so paramount, except for a short period in Siena, constitutes the individuality of Umbria.
  • Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 » by John Addington Symonds

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