- a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- the principles and practices of the Pietists.
- intensity of religious devotion or feeling.
- exaggeration or affectation of piety.
- a less common word for piety
- excessive, exaggerated, or affected piety or saintliness
- a reform movement in the German Lutheran Churches during the 17th and 18th centuries that strove to renew the devotional ideal
