Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

baroque piety

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English

Syllables: baro-que pi-ety
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"Post-Tridentine worship was in essence a baroque piety which expressed itself in florid ostentation and which used all the media of communication and the material culture of worship to make a powerful sensorial assault on the life of the spirit."
"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 [...]."

Etymology

From baroque + piety, after French piété baroque.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: piété baroque

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does baroque piety mean?: An ostentatious form of popular Catholic piety, especially in Counter-Reformation Europe.
Where does baroque piety come from?: It is traced to French.

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