单词 | pietist |
释义 | pietistn.adj. A. n. 1. Church History. A follower of Lutheran Pietism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Lutheranism > Lutheran groups and sects > [noun] > pietism > person pietist1697 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 185 There is a Sect like unto these [sc. Quietists] rose up in Germany, call'd Pietists. 1733 Oxf. Methodists 19 He compares them to the Pietists in Saxony and Switzerland. 1771 J. Brown Gen. Hist. Christian Church II. 234 In many countries, the severest laws were enacted, and edicts published against the Pietists. 1830 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. ii. viii. 197 In 1700 an edict was renewed forbidding the preaching against the Pietists. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 123 A clergyman who was a leader among the pietists. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 192/1 Another Adiaphorist controversy between Pietists and their opponents, respecting the lawfulness of amusements, arose in 1681. 1995 National Geographic Traveler July 72/2 They were German pietists..who had fled the persecution of the Lutheran Church. 2. A person who places particular emphasis on depth of religious feeling or strict religious practice, esp. as distinct from intellectual belief; a person characterized by or professing special piety, esp. of an affected or exaggerated kind. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person Pharisee1539 card gospeller1550 lip-gospeller?1556 saint1563 table-gospeller1570 separatist1620 Christera1650 canter1652 high-liver1715 cant1725 pietist1767 devil dodger1791 goody1816 creeping Jesusc1818 Mawworm1825 goody-two-shoes1843 Pecksniff1844 goody-goody1872 goody-good1879 lip-Christian1882 plaster saint1890 holy Willie1916 1767 R. Dean Ess. Future Life Brute Creatures II. 72 Numbers of them [sc. dumb creatures] make as great a Point of attending at Church on public Service Days, as the most rigid Pietists do. 1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 136 The ultra pietists make a terrible outcry. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 142 St. John..was wholly unlike the effeminate pietist of Titian's or of Raphael's pictures. 1926 Times 24 May 15/4 The experience that I am about to relate is not that of one who either is, or ever has been, a pietist. 2003 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 19 May 8 In theological terms he [sc. George W. Bush] would be called a pietist, referring to a tradition in which religion is more a matter of the heart than the intellect. B. adj. That is a pietist; relating to or characteristic of Pietism or pietists; very pious. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Lutheranism > Lutheran groups and sects > [adjective] > pietist pietist1855 1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 133 Religious writers of Pietist tendencies. 1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 436/2 The new sovereign was said to be animated with liberal sentiments, a protector of the Freemasons, and hostile to the feudal and pietist party of the court preachers. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 811/4 The extreme pietist atmosphere of the Chassidic sect of Jews. 1997 G. Hosking Russia (1998) iii. i. 168 What he actually imbibed there was a German, Pietist form of the European Enlightenment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1697 |
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