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

Related terms

• pietist

Translations

movement in the Lutheran church

• Czech: pietismus m
• Dutch: piëtisme (nl) n
• Finnish: pietismi (fi)
• French: piétisme (fr) f
• German: Pietismus (de) m
• Greek: θρησκοληψία (el) f (thriskolipsía)
• Icelandic: heittrúarstefna f
• Italian: pietismo (it) m
• Polish: pietyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: pietismo (pt) m
• Spanish: pietismo m

Further reading

• Radical Pietism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piétisme.

Noun

pietism n (uncountable)

1. pietism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pietism	pietismul
genitive-dative	pietism	pietismului
vocative	pietismule