pi·e·tism 
(pīĭ-tĭz′əm)
(pīĭ-tĭz′əm)n.
1. Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.
2. Affected or exaggerated piety.
3. Pietism A reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 1600s and 1700s, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion.
[German Pietismus, from Latin pietās, piety; see PIETY.]
pie·tist n.
pi′e·tistic adj.
pi′e·tisti·cal·ly adv.
- haute couture
- haute cuisine
- haute monde
- hauteur
- haute école
- haut monde
- HAV
- Havana
- Havana
- Havanan
- Havanese
- Havarti
- Havasupai
- have
- have a big head
- have a big/swelled head
- have a cow
- have all eggs in one basket
- have all one's eggs in one basket
- have a load on
- have a mind to
- have a screw loose
- have a swelled head
- have at
- have a thick skin