noun. Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.

noun. Affected or exaggerated piety.

noun. A reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 1600s and 1700s, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion.

noun. The movement inaugurated by the Pietists, who, from the latter part of the seventeenth century onward, sought to revive the declining piety of the Lutheran churches in Germany; the principles and practices of the Pietists.

noun. [lowercase] Devotion or godliness of life, as distinguished from mere intellectual orthodoxy: sometimes used opprobriously for mere affectation of piety.

noun. The principle or practice of the Pietists.

noun. Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion.

noun. A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.

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

noun. exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

"If a teaching is called pietism but teaches no more than what God has always used to sanctify Christians, then it is not really pietism."

devoutness  religious movement  religiousness  

defeatism  

Protestantism  ageing  blood-thirstiness  body politic  esotericism