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'''quietism'''
''noun''
# A form of [[Christian]] mysticism enjoining passive contemplation and the beatific annihilation of the will.
# A state of quietness and passivity.
# That form of [[mysticism]] which consists in the entire abnegation of all active exercise of the will and a purely passive meditation on [[God]] and divine things as the highest spiritual exercise and the means of bringing the soul into immediate union with the Godhead. Conspicuous exponents of quietism were Molinos and Mme. Guyon, in the seventeenth century. See [[Molinism]].

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