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baroque piety

baroque piety noun: an ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.

Noun

baroque piety (uncountable)

  1. An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.
    • Outside the crypto-Protestants and a small elite attracted to Jansenism after 1750 the bulk of the population, in Bohemia as in Austria, had been won over to baroque piety.1979, Jean Bérenger, ‘The Austrian Church’, Church and Society in Catholic Europe of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge, page 101
    • Post-Tridentine worship was in essence a baroque piety which expressed itself in florid ostentation and which used all the media of communication and the material culture of worship to make a powerful sensorial assault on the life of the spirit.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 94

Origin of baroque piety

From baroque + piety, after French piété baroque.

Questions about baroque piety

What does baroque piety mean?
Baroque piety means an ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.
What part of speech is baroque piety?
Baroque piety is a noun.

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