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- noun Plural form of
quietist .
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It was the policy of her father, the Duke of Wirtemberg, who had a large family, to educate his children as 'quietists' in matters of religion.
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It was the policy of her father, the Duke of Wirtemberg, who had a large family, to educate his children as 'quietists' in matters of religion.
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It was the policy of her father, the Duke of Wirtemberg, who had a large family, to educate his children as 'quietists' in matters of religion.
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Bahrain is 70 percent Shia, and most have family and tribal links with the Shia of Eastern Saudi Arabia who are linked more closely to Ayatollah Sistani and the "quietists" in Najaf than to emulation of the theocratic mullahs in Qom.
Alastair Crooke: The Saudi Counter-Revolution Alastair Crooke 2011
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Unlike the theocrats of Qom in Iran, the quietists of Najaf in Iraq eschew political power.
Alastair Crooke: The Saudi Counter-Revolution Alastair Crooke 2011
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Ultimately, even the quietists and their opponents can and do regard one another as fellow-travelers engaged in the same overall project, with perhaps a few exceptions. pgs Says:
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No one minds that there are also quietists, late-Wittgensteinians, pragmatists, etc.
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Too often, these moderate voices are "Tony's cronies" -- sellouts and quietists afraid to speak out against Blair's wars on Muslims abroad and the brutality of his antiterror tactics at home.
THE LOST GENERATION 2007
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It includes “the traditional self‑emancipation of ascetics and quietists, of stoics or Buddhist sages”.
India’s mission in the modern world is to complete and fulfil the work begun by the French revolution Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Those who do this religiously are called omphalopsychic, from a sect of quietists who induced hypnotic trances by gazing at their navels.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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