pietistic
pietistical

They remain despicable - the more so when they are pietistic.

It is strongly marked by both pietistic and Moravian influences.

He received a Pietistic education during his youth.

It affected pietistic Protestant denominations and had a strong sense of social activism.

There was some extension of the pietistic ideal.

The Shakers grew in a soil of rural pietistic revivals.

He thus became out of harmony with the pietistic thought and life of Wittenberg.

Nor is the search for direction narrowly pietistic.

Medieval and early modern rabbis also created a pietistic tradition of Jewish ethics.

- in a play on his initials), was pietistic and uncongenial.

A pietistic religious awakening had swept through Sweden around the middle of the 19th century.

The pietistic churches emphasized the duty of the Christian to purge sin from society.

Eliza during these years became increasingly pietistic.

Dogma aside, Rivera's powerful visual harangues have much in common with pietistic religious painting.

Many were pietistic Protestant reformers who called for public schools to teach moral values and proposed prohibition to end the liquor problem.

It has an institutional quality, but it is also almost pietistic, introverted, full of peculiarities.

Theologically, they were pietistic; politically they often supported progressive causes and prohibition.

Kuyper wanted to awaken the church from what he viewed as its pietistic slumber.

The Church of Norway is generally pietistic.

A similar pietistic revival movement took place among some German and Dutch settlers, leading to more divisions.

His mother, though very proud of young Norb, remained very pietistic throughout her life.

This families religious background was mostly pietistic Reformed, therefor they want to establish a new denomination.

His pietistic movement won considerable way among the Catholic laity, and even attracted some fifty or sixty priests.

While the monsignor and his beloved finance committee occupied a higher level, above such banal, pietistic tasks.

Within Christian fundamentalism, if the word can be used objectively anymore, there are biblical, doctrinal and pietistic conservatives.

You pietistical fools had no facts at all.

They always describe the restrictions imposed by the pietistical way of living, especially in March of the Musicians (1978) and Lewi's Journey (2001).