pietistic

From pietist +‎ -ic, probably after German pietistisch.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pʌɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /paɪ.ɪˈtɪs.tɪk/

pietistic (comparative more pietistic, superlative most pietistic)

1. pertaining to pietism (Lutheran spiritual movement)
   • 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, section I:

     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.

2. excessively pious