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Quietist|ˈkwaɪətɪst|
[ad. It. quietista (F. quiétiste): cf. prec. and -ist.]
1. One who believes in or practises Quietism, or any form of mysticism resembling it. Also fig.
1685Burnet Letter from Rome (1689) 205 A state of inward quietness, from which the name of Quietists was given to all his followers. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2269/3 They write from Rome that the Pope had assisted a third time at a Congregation held concerning the Quietists. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. §14 The disinterested Stoics (therein not unlike our modern Quietists). 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. liii. 14 He conceived a like admiration for the Indian quietists. 1893C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 23 Reading works by Mystics, Quietists, and the like. 1923W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary xxiii. 241 In love he had become a Quietist. 1924― Three Rooms xxix. 268 She sat like a quietist, hands folded, her brown eyes benignly equivocal.
2. With lower-case initial. One whose attitude towards political or social movements is analogous to Quietism in religion.
1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. IV. 393, I will not talk to you about politics because you are among the moderates and quietists. 1834Southey Doctor cii. (1862) 232 He was not like him a political quietist from indifference. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 442 He was, in political and social conviction, a democratic quietist; one might almost say a fatalist.
3. attrib. or as adj.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. xi. ii. 224 The Quietist doctrine of unconsciousness. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xxviii. (1891) 413 Hymns..of the Methodist and Quietist character. 1873Morley Rousseau II. x. 29 Rousseau raised feeling, now passionate, now quietist. |