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Pietism

noun

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

Exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal. Synonyms: religionism, religiosity, religiousism.

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... Englishmen, he did not dress like an Englishman, shake hands like an Englishman. He was suspected of "Germanizing" tendencies, very offensive to high churchmen, especially in philosophy and religion. He displeased the Conservatives by his Liberalism, the coarser Radicals by his pietism and culture. He displeased the fast set by his strict morality; they called him slow, because he did not bet, gamble, use bad language, keep an opera dancer. With more reason he displeased the army by meddling, under the name of a too courtly Commander-in-Chief, with ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

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