quietist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From quiet + -ist, after Italian quietista.

The romanticists were quietists, and their scenery is characteristic. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Is it wonderful that there have been quietists in the world ever since Christ's religion was first preached upon earth. — Lady Audley's Secret, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
"I, too, but seem." THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST TO CRITIAS "Why, when the world's great mind Hath finally inclined, Why," you say, Critias, "be debating still? — Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Matthew Arnold

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