pietism in English

noun
1
pious sentiment, especially of an exaggerated or affected nature.
As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
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1. Doctrines of the French Camisards and Boehmist influences in Radical German Pietism

2. Stephan had practiced Conventicle Pietism in Germany and had influenced Walther and others in this direction

3. In his theory, Robert K. Merton focused on English Puritanism and German Pietism as having been responsible for the development of the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries.

4. The works of the Pre-Raphaelites met with critical opposition to their pietism, Archaizing compositions, intensely sharp focus—which, with an absence of shadows, flattened the depicted forms—and the stark coloration they achieved by painting on a wet white ground

5. The Freemasons, however, have altogether preserved the ancient custom of applause, guarding and regulating its use by as strict, though different rules, as did the Romans; and thus showing, as another evidence of the antiquity of their institution, that the "Grand Honors" of Freemasonry are legitimately derived from the "pietism" or Applaudings