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qui·et·ism

 (kwī′ĭ-tĭz′əm)
n.
1. A form of Christian mysticism enjoining passive contemplation and the beatific annihilation of the will.
2. A state of quietness and passivity.

qui′et·ist n.
qui′et·is′tic adj.
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Noun1.quietist - a religious mystic who follows quietism
mystic, religious mystic - someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension
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quietist

[ˈkwaɪɪtɪst] Nquietista mf
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quietist

nQuietist(in) m(f)
adjquietistisch
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References in classic literature ?
Both are quietists, yet in this respect they differ, that the former is the grey quietist, the latter the pearl.
The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist; the opening of the internal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church; the revival of the Calvinistic churches; the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
It confirmed his reputation as a quietist committed to the turning of the other cheek.
The third is a new form of quietism, one that enjoys some advantages over other quietist views.
Most Wahhabi consider themselves "quietist" and abjure all participation in politics.
In the case of Burma, the transformation of a nonviolent political leader like Aung San Suu Kyi into a withdrawn and quietist approach to the deporting of thousands of Rohingya Muslims was the subject of a lively debate between the proponents of efficacy in politics the withdrawal of the Amnesty International award for her silence, as opposed to her calling for international mediation to consciously compensate for her inefficacy to counter the military domination in Burma and the vast anti-Rohingya sentiment common in the non-Muslim majority of Myanmar.
What a quietist boundary represents is this: it represents the point at which the semantic model becomes silent, not the transition between two distinct semantic categories.
I call them the instrumentalist, quietist, and holist versions of pragmatism.
It is predicted that this growth will continue into the second quarter and steady off in the third quarter which are always the quietist months of the year.
The Arab Shi'ites of the Ja'fari order are mostly part of the quietist school which shuns politics and is opposed to Iran's concept of Wilayat ul-Faqih (WuF) - a theocracy led by the old and ailing Ayatullah Ali Khamenei.
Tehran pretends to be the protector of Shiite Islam, yet revolutionary Khomeinism bears little relation to the quietist, moderate varieties of Shiism cultivated across the Arab world.