Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pietists

A sect of Lutherans in the seventeenth century, who sought to introduce a more moral life and a more “evangelical” spirit of doctrine into the reformed church. In Germany the word Pietist is about equal to our vulgar use of Methodist.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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