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单词 pietist
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pietistn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪᵻtɪst/, U.S. /ˈpaɪədəst/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: piety n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < piety n. + -ist suffix. In sense A. 1 after German Pietist (second half of the 17th cent.); compare French piétiste (1694 as noun, 1699 as adjective), and pietism n. 1.
A. n.
1. Church History. A follower of Lutheran Pietism.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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n.adj.1697
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