Pietists, a designation given at the end of the 17th century to a religious party in Germany, which, without forming a separate sect, was distinguished rather by fervour and zeal than by peculiarities of religious opinion. See CHURCH HISTORY, Vol. III. p. 240, the articles on SPENER and FRANCKE; and the Histories of Pietism by Heppe (1879) and Ritschl (1880-86).
Pietists
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 170
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