Adjective: pietistic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more pietistic |
| Superlative | most pietistic |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like pietistic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From pietist + -ic, probably after German pietistisch.