Definitions for Pietism

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Pietism Pi·e·tism

Spelling: [pahy-i-tiz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm/

Pietism is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in Pietism (eiimpst).

Definitions for Pietism

noun

1. a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
2. the principles and practices of the Pietists.
3. (lowercase) intensity of religious devotion or feeling.
4. (lowercase) exaggeration or affectation of piety.

Origin of Pietism

1690-1700; German Pietismus Latin piet(ās) piety + German -ismus -ism

Examples for Pietism

Browning's Christianity is wider than our creeds, and is all the more vitally Christian in that it never sinks into Pietism.

This Pietism, nowhere else so paramount, except for a short period in Siena, constitutes the individuality of Umbria.

Those of us who have no form of Pietism feel cut off from making the attempt at all.

John was a compound of romanticism, Pietism, realism, and naturalism.

The answers which æstheticism and Pietism gave to rationalism were incomplete.

One cannot separate the influence of Pietism and that of the Opera.

This and his stay in England gave an Anglican turn to his German Pietism.

His Journal was read at home by John's step-mother, who inclined to Pietism.

Pietism and sentimentalism have supplanted in a large measure the ethical.

We may be permitted to try to show the meaning of Pietism by a concrete example.