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Pietism

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Noun

1. pietism

17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion

2. pietism, religionism, religiosity, religiousism

exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pietism

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noun
1.  a less common word for piety
2. 
excessive, exaggerated, or affected piety or saintliness
noun
history
a reform movement in the German Lutheran Churches during the 17th and 18th centuries that strove to renew the devotional ideal

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Pietism

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noun
1.  [P-]
the beliefs and practices of the Pietists
2. 
an exaggerated pious feeling or attitude

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pietism

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n.
1. Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.
2. Affected or exaggerated piety.
3. Pietism A reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 1600s and 1700s, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion.

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