Definition of "pietistical" []

• Pietistic (adjective)

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• "In fact, a goodly proportion of our so-called slang is drawn from the same high source, being vinegar to the teeth of pietistical purists, but quite good enough for God."
• "I present extracts from the account of Cambronne, which he suspects may have given the pietistical Quakers a pain."
• "So it is with a pietistical and puristical people -- they will follow some stupid old bell-wether because utterly incapable of independent thought, of individual ratiocination."