PIETIST
- a pious person [n PIETISTS]
- a 17th century religious movement originating in Germany in reaction to formalism and intellectualism and stressing Bible study and personal religious experience
- phasis on devotional experience and practices
- movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy
- the principles and practices of the Pietists
- intensity of religious devotion or feeling