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  1. 1. n. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 1. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. Source: webster
  5. 5. The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religionconsists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests andanxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation ofGod and his attributes. Source: adambom
  6. 6. n:100 n. a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God Source: ecdict

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