piety
reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations: a prayer full of piety.
the quality or state of being pious: saintly piety.
dutiful respect or regard for parents, homeland, etc.: filial piety.
a pious act, remark, belief, or the like: the pieties and sacrifices of an austere life.
Origin of piety
1Other words for piety
Opposites for piety
Other words from piety
- su·per·pi·e·ty, noun, plural su·per·pi·e·ties.
- un·pi·e·ty, noun, plural un·pi·e·ties.
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How to use piety in a sentence
They took the national day and shook it free of all its pieties.
On everything from gender and sexual preference to climate change, those who dissent from the official pieties risk punishment.
Watch What You Say, The New Liberal Power Elite Won’t Tolerate Dissent | Joel Kotkin | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSuch rampant aggression, coupled with cynical disingenuousness, is just the thing to elicit all manner of pieties from the West.
Invaders and the Lies They Tell From Nazi Germany to Russia and the US | Malcolm Jones | March 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis was Kennedy at his best, a clear-eyed realist dispensing with conservative pieties.
“The Patriarch”: Joseph Kennedy Sr.’s Outsized Life | Jacob Heilbrunn | November 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMurray rejects the pieties of the political left and right alike.
Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart’ and the Culture Myth | Ralph Richard Banks | February 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
He recalled the long years of ritual; childish memories of paternal pieties.
Dreamers of the Ghetto | I. ZangwillDear tender soul, with all its old-world fidelities and pieties pure and unimpaired!
Robert Elsmere | Mrs. Humphry WardIt must ever remain one of the supreme gratifications of travel for any American aware of the ancient pieties of race.
A Passionate Pilgrim | Henry JamesThat name, it will be remembered, was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of his father in his worship.
Les Misrables | Victor HugoYou said there were no interesting books written for the blind, only pieties.
Memoirs of My Dead Life | George Moore
British Dictionary definitions for piety
/ (ˈpaɪɪtɪ) /
dutiful devotion to God and observance of religious principles
the quality or characteristic of being pious
a pious action, saying, etc
rare devotion and obedience to parents or superiors
Origin of piety
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