单词 | quietist |
释义 | quietistn.adj. A. n. 1. Usually in form Quietist. An adherent or practitioner of Quietism, or any form of mysticism resembling it (see quietism n. 1). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > quietism > [noun] > person quietist1685 Molinist1690 Molinosist1728 1685 G. Burnet 8 Dec. in Some Lett. (1686) iv. 200 A State of inward quietness, from which the name of Quietists was given to all his followers. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2269/3 They write from Rome that the Pope had assisted a third time at a Congregation held concerning the Quietists. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. xiv. 196 The disinterested Stoics (therein not unlike our modern Quietists). 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 155 Johnson laughed heartily at this good Quietist's self-condemning minutes [= Dr. Rutty's Spiritual Diary]. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. liii. 14 He conceived a like admiration for the Indian quietists. 1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 23 Reading works by Mystics, Quietists, and the like. 1923 W. Deeping Secret Sanctuary xxiii. 241 In love he had become a Quietist. 1924 W. Deeping Three Rooms xxix. 268 She sat like a quietist, hands folded, her brown eyes benignly equivocal. 1949 New Life July–Aug. 151 This same error is found among a third group of Christians who may be called Quietists or Jansenists according as they stress the uselessness of the world or its harmfulness. 2000 Times of India (Nexis) 29 Mar. The Quietists believed that Tao is the hidden centre of all apparent reality. 2. A person who follows a system or philosophy of passivity and non-intervention in political or social matters. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific political theories or doctrines > [noun] > other political theories or doctrines > adherents of quietist1783 restrictionist1812 progressist1844 abstentionist1857 progressive1884 productivist1892 white supremacist1896 restrictivist1899 minimalist1906 renovationist1920 Eurasian1922 communalist1927 Europasian1928 cultural Marxist1998 1783 Thoughts on Conduct & Contin. of Volunteers of Ireland 11 The British nation long possessed this power to a degree which would alarm our modern quietist. 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher IV. 393 I will not talk to you about politics because you are among the moderates and quietists. 1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 280 He was not like him a political quietist from indifference. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 442 He was, in political and social conviction, a democratic quietist; one might almost say a fatalist. 1917 Times 20 Feb. 7/1 The violent Young Turk reactionary is the controlling power, the old Turk quietist has about as much influence on actual events as a decaying monument of a forgotten age. 1978 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 22 Oct. 28 The youth movement, like so much else in 1968, was divided many ways; the most obvious gap was between the activists and the quietists, the politicals and the hippies. 2003 I. MacDonald People's Music 32 The paradox is that the Dylan of the Playboy interview is a hip quietist whose point of view, while critical, scarcely seems the potential subject of a campaign of conversion. B. adj. Of or relating to quietists or quietism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > quietism > [adjective] quietist1767 quietistic1849 1767 A. Maclaine in tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (new ed.) IV. Index 46/2 Palamas, Gregory, defends the Quietist monks in the xiv. cent. against Barlaam. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. xi. ii. 268 The Quietist doctrine of unconsciousness. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner xxviii. 319 Hymns..of the Methodist and Quietist character. 1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. x. 29 Rousseau raised feeling, now passionate, now quietist. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 428/1 He gained the greatest popularity by his defence of the rights of the Gallican Church in the Quietist troubles. 1963 D. M. Matheson tr. F. Schuon Understanding Islam iii. 94 Some have reproached this piety with being ‘fatalistic’ or ‘quietist’. 2000 Independent on Sunday 15 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 24/4 ‘I am really sorry to see my Countrymen trouble themselves about Politics,’ Blake once said, a remark as quietist as any government could wish for. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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