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  • a  of or relating to Pietism
  • s  excessively or hypocritically pious

  • Kerouac's feeling is genuine, and the self-indulgent gush of his prose is perhaps no worse than the pietistic style of those who have had to deal with real, grown-up saints.
  • The result was an episode recorded like "My First Communion" in a pietistic work"My First Self-Criticism.
  • To hell with its venal careerism, its hypocrisy, its prurience, its pietistic ruthlessness.

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