ALL meanings of pietist
Pi·e·tism
P p - noun pietist a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy. 1
- noun pietist the principles and practices of the Pietists. 1
- noun pietist (lowercase) intensity of religious devotion or feeling. 1
- noun pietist (lowercase) exaggeration or affectation of piety. 1
- noun pietist any of a group of Germans who advocated a revival of the devotional ideal in the Lutheran Church in the 17th-18th cent. 0
- noun pietist a pious person 0