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Pietism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity. capitalized, countable, often, uncountable

    "From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education."

  2. 2
    exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal wordnet
  3. 3
    17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion wordnet

Etymology

From piety + -ism.

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