Definition for QUI'ET-ISM

QUI'ET-ISM, n.

Peace or tranquillity of mind; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. In history, quietism is the system of the quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the internal rest or recollection of the mind, employed in contemplating God and submitting to his will.

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