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Pietistic
Pietistic meaning
pertaining to pietism (Lutheran spiritual movement) | excessively pious
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Example sentences (7)
This is not to say that martyrdom in Northern Nigeria is sought for or informed by an individualistic and romanticized pietistic desire to die and be with Christ!
Bismarck, a devout pietistic Protestant, realized his Kulturkampf was backfiring when secular and socialist elements used the opportunity to attack all religion.
Bismarck, a devout pietistic Protestant, was alarmed that secularists and socialists were using the Kulturkampf to attack all religion.
His father, Friedrich, Sr., was a Pietistic Protestant, de and Engels was raised accordingly.
Many were pietistic Protestant reformers who called for public schools to teach moral values and proposed prohibition to end the liquor problem.
Motifs such as The Empty Cross and Golgotha (both c. 1900) reflect a metaphysical orientation, and also reflect Munch's pietistic upbringing.
Pearson. p. 16. In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from moralistic convictions of pietistic Protestants.