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1. (n.) Pietism
a movement in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
2. Pietism
(l.c.) intensity of religious devotion or feeling.
3. Pietism
(l.c.) exaggeration or affectation of piety.
Etymology: (1690–1700; < G Pietismus < L piet(ās)piety+ G -ismus -ism)
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1. (noun) Pietism
17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
2. (noun) religiosity, religionism, religiousism, pietism
exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
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1. (noun) pietism
the principle or practice of the Pietists
2. (noun) pietism
strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion
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