pietism
nounStress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.
nounAffected or exaggerated piety.
nounA reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 1600s and 1700s, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion.
nounThe 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.
nounThe principle or practice of the Pietists.
nounStrict devotion; also, affectation of devotion.
nounA
17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
nounexaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal