pietism

English

Etymology

From piety +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpʌɪətɪz(ə)m/

Noun

pietism (countable and uncountable, plural pietisms)

  1. (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.

Derived terms
  • church pietism
  • radical pietism

Translations

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piétisme.

Noun

pietism n (uncountable)

  1. pietism

Declension
declension of pietism (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pietism pietismul
genitive/dative (unui) pietism pietismului
vocative pietismule
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