pietism
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pietism (countable and uncountable, plural pietisms)
- (Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 739:
- From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education.
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movement in the Lutheran church
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- Radical Pietism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Borrowed from French piétisme.
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pietism n (uncountable)
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declension of pietism (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) pietism | pietismul |
genitive/dative | (unui) pietism | pietismului |
vocative | pietismule |