Definition of pietism in English:

pietism

noun ˈpʌɪətɪz(ə)mˈpaɪəˌtɪzəm

mass noun

1Pious sentiment, especially of an exaggerated or affected nature.
Example sentencesExamples
- These doctrines become more tempting as forms of retreatism in postmodernity, in the face of increasing ethnic, religious, and sexual pluralism, functioning as a new reification of subjectivity, a new pietism of self.
- Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered.
- Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
- Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience.
- As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
Synonyms
sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, piousness, affected piety, affected superiority, false virtue, cant, humbug, pretence, posturing, speciousness, empty talk
1. 1.1usually Pietism A 17th-century movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In Halle, birthplace of George Frederick Handel and once a center of Lutheran pietism that preached the personal devotion to the Redeemer, only 10 percent of the inhabitants belong to a Christian denomination.
  Rationalism and pietism were two viewpoints that reduced religious controversy during the 1700's.
  During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism.
  I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism.
  The experiential pietism of the Great Awakening's revival preachers influenced prorevival Puritans to require testimony to an inner experience of personal encounter with God as a normative sign of conversion.
  Synonyms
  devoutness, devotion, piousness, religiousness, religion, holiness, godliness, sanctity, sanctitude, saintliness, devotion to god, veneration, reverence, faith, religious duty, spirituality, sacredness, religious zeal, fervour, religiosity

Derivatives

pietist

noun ˈpʌɪətɪstˈpaɪədəst

The purpose of the public school, to the pietists, was ‘to unify and make homogeneous the society.’
Example sentencesExamples
- The pietists believed such experience was more important than intellectual formulas.
- His father was very pietist and devoted to prayer.
- Mark Twain considered his mother the deepest of pietists.
- These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.

pietistic

adjective pʌɪəˈtɪstɪkˌpaɪəˈtɪstɪk

By 1865 politicians realized that bishops and priests largely avoided even informal electoral endorsements of any kind - they were far less active than pietistic Protestants, as the annals of temperance and anti-slavery demonstrate.
Example sentencesExamples
- The idea of a third way was intrinsic to mid-19 th-century German ‘mediating theology,’ which blended confessional, pietistic and liberal elements.
- I envied the refugees from behind the iron curtain who sat next to me in the flight with their noses flattened against the windowpanes, their pietistic eyes peeled open to sight the Goddess of Liberty.
- The girls were always very friendly - but I was always a bit suspicious of their pietistic fervour.
- In order to attain their salvation, they also had to be honest, gentle, obedient, merciful, filially pietistic, and patient - all attributes of the perfect wife and mother.

pietistical

adjective pʌɪəˈtɪstɪk(ə)l

"I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some kind of pietistical illusion of moral excellence."
Example sentencesExamples
- Several European countries were experiencing similar pietistical trends.
- But pietistical ideas were profoundly different from all intellectual ideas.

pietistically

adverbpʌɪəˈtɪstɪkli

Those who felt the impact of the pietistically inclined awakenings were often critical of the forms and practices of the state church and the clergy.
Example sentencesExamples
- The following poems largely avoid anything mawkish or pietistically simple, or on the other hand too gloomy or gruesome; they are all good literature.
- For those who pietistically claimed that God treated us even-handedly because, as they wanted to claim, God was neutral, we had many biblical texts to refer to which showed that God was in fact notoriously biased.

Origin

Late 17th century: from German Pietismus, from modern Latin, based on Latin pietas (see piety).

Definition of pietism in US English:

pietism

nounˈpaɪəˌtɪzəmˈpīəˌtizəm

1Pious sentiment, especially of an exaggerated or affected nature.
Example sentencesExamples
- These doctrines become more tempting as forms of retreatism in postmodernity, in the face of increasing ethnic, religious, and sexual pluralism, functioning as a new reification of subjectivity, a new pietism of self.
- Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
- As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
- Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered.
- Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience.
Synonyms
sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, piousness, affected piety, affected superiority, false virtue, cant, humbug, pretence, posturing, speciousness, empty talk
1. 1.1usually Pietism A 17th-century movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Rationalism and pietism were two viewpoints that reduced religious controversy during the 1700's.
  In Halle, birthplace of George Frederick Handel and once a center of Lutheran pietism that preached the personal devotion to the Redeemer, only 10 percent of the inhabitants belong to a Christian denomination.
  The experiential pietism of the Great Awakening's revival preachers influenced prorevival Puritans to require testimony to an inner experience of personal encounter with God as a normative sign of conversion.
  I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism.
  During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism.
  Synonyms
  devoutness, devotion, piousness, religiousness, religion, holiness, godliness, sanctity, sanctitude, saintliness, devotion to god, veneration, reverence, faith, religious duty, spirituality, sacredness, religious zeal, fervour, religiosity

Origin

Late 17th century: from German Pietismus, from modern Latin, based on Latin pietas (see piety).

单词	pietism
释义	Definition of pietism in English: pietism noun ˈpʌɪətɪz(ə)mˈpaɪəˌtɪzəm mass noun 1Pious sentiment, especially of an exaggerated or affected nature. Example sentencesExamples These doctrines become more tempting as forms of retreatism in postmodernity, in the face of increasing ethnic, religious, and sexual pluralism, functioning as a new reification of subjectivity, a new pietism of self. Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered. Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking. Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience. As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other. Synonyms sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, piousness, affected piety, affected superiority, false virtue, cant, humbug, pretence, posturing, speciousness, empty talk 1.1usually Pietism A 17th-century movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church. Example sentencesExamples In Halle, birthplace of George Frederick Handel and once a center of Lutheran pietism that preached the personal devotion to the Redeemer, only 10 percent of the inhabitants belong to a Christian denomination. Rationalism and pietism were two viewpoints that reduced religious controversy during the 1700's. During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism. I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism. The experiential pietism of the Great Awakening's revival preachers influenced prorevival Puritans to require testimony to an inner experience of personal encounter with God as a normative sign of conversion. Synonyms devoutness, devotion, piousness, religiousness, religion, holiness, godliness, sanctity, sanctitude, saintliness, devotion to god, veneration, reverence, faith, religious duty, spirituality, sacredness, religious zeal, fervour, religiosity Derivatives pietist noun ˈpʌɪətɪstˈpaɪədəst The purpose of the public school, to the pietists, was ‘to unify and make homogeneous the society.’ Example sentencesExamples The pietists believed such experience was more important than intellectual formulas. His father was very pietist and devoted to prayer. Mark Twain considered his mother the deepest of pietists. These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse. pietistic adjective pʌɪəˈtɪstɪkˌpaɪəˈtɪstɪk By 1865 politicians realized that bishops and priests largely avoided even informal electoral endorsements of any kind - they were far less active than pietistic Protestants, as the annals of temperance and anti-slavery demonstrate. Example sentencesExamples The idea of a third way was intrinsic to mid-19 th-century German ‘mediating theology,’ which blended confessional, pietistic and liberal elements. I envied the refugees from behind the iron curtain who sat next to me in the flight with their noses flattened against the windowpanes, their pietistic eyes peeled open to sight the Goddess of Liberty. The girls were always very friendly - but I was always a bit suspicious of their pietistic fervour. In order to attain their salvation, they also had to be honest, gentle, obedient, merciful, filially pietistic, and patient - all attributes of the perfect wife and mother. pietistical adjective pʌɪəˈtɪstɪk(ə)l "I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some kind of pietistical illusion of moral excellence." Example sentencesExamples Several European countries were experiencing similar pietistical trends. But pietistical ideas were profoundly different from all intellectual ideas. pietistically adverbpʌɪəˈtɪstɪkli Those who felt the impact of the pietistically inclined awakenings were often critical of the forms and practices of the state church and the clergy. Example sentencesExamples The following poems largely avoid anything mawkish or pietistically simple, or on the other hand too gloomy or gruesome; they are all good literature. For those who pietistically claimed that God treated us even-handedly because, as they wanted to claim, God was neutral, we had many biblical texts to refer to which showed that God was in fact notoriously biased. Origin Late 17th century: from German Pietismus, from modern Latin, based on Latin pietas (see piety). Definition of pietism in US English: pietism nounˈpaɪəˌtɪzəmˈpīəˌtizəm 1Pious sentiment, especially of an exaggerated or affected nature. Example sentencesExamples These doctrines become more tempting as forms of retreatism in postmodernity, in the face of increasing ethnic, religious, and sexual pluralism, functioning as a new reification of subjectivity, a new pietism of self. Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking. As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other. Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered. Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience. Synonyms sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, piousness, affected piety, affected superiority, false virtue, cant, humbug, pretence, posturing, speciousness, empty talk 1.1usually Pietism A 17th-century movement for the revival of piety in the Lutheran Church. Example sentencesExamples Rationalism and pietism were two viewpoints that reduced religious controversy during the 1700's. In Halle, birthplace of George Frederick Handel and once a center of Lutheran pietism that preached the personal devotion to the Redeemer, only 10 percent of the inhabitants belong to a Christian denomination. The experiential pietism of the Great Awakening's revival preachers influenced prorevival Puritans to require testimony to an inner experience of personal encounter with God as a normative sign of conversion. I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism. During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism. Synonyms devoutness, devotion, piousness, religiousness, religion, holiness, godliness, sanctity, sanctitude, saintliness, devotion to god, veneration, reverence, faith, religious duty, spirituality, sacredness, religious zeal, fervour, religiosity Origin Late 17th century: from German Pietismus, from modern Latin, based on Latin pietas (see piety).
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