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Webster 1913 Edition

Pietist

Pi′e-tist

,
Noun.
[Cf. G.
pietist
, F.
piétiste
. See
Piety
.]
(Eccl. Hist.)
One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; – often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pietist

PI'ETIST

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Noun.
One of a sect professing great strictness and purity of life, despising learning, school theology and ecclesiastical polity, as also forms and ceremonies in religion, and giving themselves up to mystic theology. This sect sprung up among the protestants of Germany, in the latter part of the seventeenth century.

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