Quietism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUIETISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a doctrine of passive religious contemplation
• (in the Christian faith) devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will as a form of religious mysticism.
• calm acceptance of things as they are without attempts to resist or change them
• passivity and calmness of mind towards external events
• Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
• The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.
• a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

Words related to QUIETISM

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Words that contain QUIETISM

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How to use QUIETISM in a sentence

• There is in the Hinduism of Southern India a peculiar element of conservative quietism to which lawlessness in any form seems to be repugnant.
• He was probably something of a spiritual as well as of a physical Quietist, for he set Cowper to translate the poetry of the great exponent of Quietism, Madame Guyon.
• It might, in an hour of trouble and weakness, make concessions to quietism and accept the cross, but it would not suffer the naturalistic note to die out altogether.
• Thomists and Molinists became as good as confederates, and Quietism barely seemed a heresy.
• We associate a certain quietism and passivity with the thought of the Eastern peoples.

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