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.
- Indo-European root: ken-
- Indo-European root: kenk-
- Indo-European root: kens-
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- Indo-European root: ker-
- Indo-European root: ker-
- Indo-European root: ker-
- Indo-European root: kerd-
- Indo-European root: kerp-
- Indo-European root: kers-
- Indo-European root: kerə-
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- Indo-European root: keuə-
- Indo-European root: klei-
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- Indo-European root: ko-
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- Indo-European root: kom
- Indo-European root: konk-
- Indo-European root: koro-
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- Indo-European root: kous-
- Indo-European root: krei-
- Indo-European root: kreus-
- Indo-European root: kreuə-