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pietist|ˈpaɪɪtɪst|
[a. Ger. Pietist, f. L. pietās piety + -ist. Applied in derision to the followers of Spener, in reference to the collegia pietatis, or unions for mutual religious edification, formed by them, and adopted at Leipsic, c 1690, by some of Francke's congregation.]
1. Ch. Hist. A member of the party of reformers in the Lutheran church which originated from a movement begun by Philipp Jakob Spener at Frankfort about 1670 for the deepening of piety and the reform of religious education.
1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 185 There is a Sect like unto these [Quietists] rose up in Germany, call'd Pietists. 1705A. H. Franck's Pietas Hallensis Introd. 25 Dr. Spener's Work..for which he was also by the Adversaries in way of Derision called, The Patriarch of the Pietists. Ibid. 27 The Professors of Divinity there, by the World called Pietists. 1733Oxf. Methodists 19 He compares them to the Pietists in Saxony and Switzerland. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant i. 123 A clergyman who was a leader among the pietists.
2. A person characterized by or professing special piety; one who cultivates, or lays stress on, depth of religious feeling or strictness of religious practice, esp. as distinct from intellectual belief; one who is emotionally, mystically, or exaggeratedly pious.
1767R. Dean Future Life Brute Creatures 72 Numbers of them [dumb creatures] make as great a Point of attending at Church on public Service Days, as the most rigid Pietists do. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 136 The ultra pietists make a terrible outcry. 1861Thackeray Four Georges iii. (1862) 161 William Cowper, that delicate wit, that trembling pietist, that refined gentleman. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 142 St. John..was wholly unlike the effeminate pietist of Titian's or of Raphael's pictures.
3. attrib. (in sense 1 or 2). That is a pietist; pertaining to or characteristic of pietists; pietistic.
1705A. H. Franck's Pietas Hallensis Introd. 41 The Industrious Zeal of the (so called) Pietist-Divines. 1855Miss Cobbe Intuit. Mor. 133 Religious writers of Pietist tendencies. 1861Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 648 The celebrated Pietist leader [Spener] so completely drew around himself all that there was of religious movement in his generation, that his life is a history of the Lutheran Church during the latter half of the seventeenth century. |