Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to an often immoderate reverence for forebears or tradition.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin fīlius, son; see filial + pietistic.]
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Examples
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The date, it turns out, falls within a period when Jewish scholarship about the history of Jews in the United States was moving away from predominantly filiopietistic studies of ancestry and achievement and toward a more sophisticated assessment of the role of Jews in American culture.
Slavery and the Jews 1995
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Attention to such matters has led to both sloppy filiopietistic triumphalism and much uninformed finger-pointing.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mark Noll 2011
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The practice of worshipping one's ancestors. (From Grandiloquent Dictionary)
June 8, 2008