pietistical

ADJECTIVE
  1. excessively or hypocritically pious
    a sickening sanctimonious smile
  2. of or relating to Pietism
    the Pietistic movement
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How To Use pietistical In A Sentence

  • Logically then, Stauffenberg's moral leitmotiv should be traced back to this spirituality which, for Holderlin, was pietistically tinged. Signandsight.com
  • Those who felt the impact of the pietistically inclined awakenings were often critical of the forms and practices of the state church and the clergy.
  • But we cannot even begin to trust it, as long as we allow ourselves to believe pietistically that the Mind of God is set on punishment. Where No Fear Was
  • But what Klein pietistically sees as lowbrow proles venturing into a world to which they do not belong, I see as dedicated seekers of wisdom and truth who are driven - even at times when they are not to be found in their three piece Armanis - to pursue a story. Archive 2004-09-01
  • Christians who were pietistically inclined, and care fully avoided judging their hearts. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod
  • For those who pietistically claimed that God treated us even-handedly because, as they wanted to claim, God was neutral, we had many biblical texts to refer to which showed that God was in fact notoriously biased.
  • Page 359, Volume 2 pietistically, or existentially — and no longer (whatever his protestations) defines God on the basis exclusively either of speculation or of external ecclesiastical or scriptural authority, it is not hard to see why, even in the very different atmosphere of the twentieth cen - tury, Schleiermacher continues to be called “the father of modern theology,” at least in Western culture. IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800
  • The following poems largely avoid anything mawkish or pietistically simple, or on the other hand too gloomy or gruesome; they are all good literature.
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