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Synonyms for quietism


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kwahy-i-tiz-uh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkwaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm



Définition of quietism

Origin :
  • 1680s, from Italian quietismo, literally "passiveness," from quieto "calm, at rest," from Latin quietus (see quiet (adj.)). Originally in reference to the mysticism of Miguel Molinos (1640-1697), Spanish priest in Rome, whose "Guida spirituale" was published 1675 and condemned by the Inquisition in 1685. Related: Quietist.
  • As in mysticism : noun occultism
Example sentences :
  • But, if politics lost by Godwin's quietism, literature gained.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • And this system of female non-education or quietism still prevails.
  • Extract from : « Flatland » by Edwin Abbott Abbott
  • Together they worked for God and for what they believed to be his cause Quietism.
  • Extract from : « Women of the Teutonic Nations » by Hermann Schoenfeld
  • Even for the souls of the ‘deified,’ quietism is never right.
  • Extract from : « Ruysbroeck » by Evelyn Underhill
  • In 1698, a vicar in the neighbourhood of Dijon had been burnt for Quietism.
  • Extract from : « La Sorcire: The Witch of the Middle Ages » by Jules Michelet
  • Thus in his art he aimed at repose, the quietism of the Buddhists.
  • Extract from : « Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art » by John Gould Fletcher
  • But Brissenden was not a disciple of quietism, and he changed his attitude abruptly.
  • Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London
  • Not to realise that, is the heresy of Quietism, of many mystics.
  • Extract from : « God The Invisible King » by Herbert George Wells
  • These were the rival books in a controversy about what was called “Quietism.”
  • Extract from : « The Existence of God » by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
  • Schiller's worldly circumstances, too, were of a kind well calculated to prevent excess of quietism.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Friedrich Schiller » by Thomas Carlyle

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