pietistic
adjUK /pʌɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/ · US /paɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/
Etymology From pietist + -ic, probably after German pietistisch.
1
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 of superhuman powers.1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, section I:
2
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:
- Derived terms
- filiopietistic, pietistically