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baroque piety

noun

Etymology

From baroque + piety, after French piété baroque.

  1. derived from piété baroque

Definitions

  1. An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.

    • Outside the crypto-Protestants and a small elite attracted to Jansenism after 1750 the bulk of the population, in Bohemia as in Austria, had been won over to baroque piety.
    • This shifting stance among both educated elites and secular rulers toward Baroque piety would be a crucial precondition for the spread of enlightened ideas in Catholic Germany [...].

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