pietistic
UK/pʌɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/US/paɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/
pietistic adjective: pertaining to pietism (Lutheran spiritual movement).
Adjective
pietistic (comparative more pietistic, superlative most pietistic)
- pertaining to pietism (Lutheran spiritual movement)
- Quite apart from all the pietistic [translating pietistischen] and mystical writers [...] we also encounter clear-sighted men averse to the fantastic who use this very inexplicability of the phenomena of dreams in their endeavours to support their religious belief in the existence and intervention...1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, section I
- excessively pious
- Hasidism was a pietistic devotional movement in which the relationship between Rebbe and disciple was of paramount importance.1994, Simcha Paull Raphael, Jewish Views of the Afterlife, page 352
Forms of pietistic
| comparative | more pietistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most pietistic |
Origin of pietistic
From pietist + -ic, probably after German pietistisch.
Words formed from pietistic
Questions about pietistic
- What does pietistic mean?
- Pietistic means pertaining to pietism (Lutheran spiritual movement).
- What part of speech is pietistic?
- Pietistic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pietistic?
- Pietistic is pronounced /pʌɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/ (UK).
Words near pietistic in the dictionary
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