piety
IPA: pˈaɪʌti
noun
- (uncountable, religion) Reverence and devotion to God.
- (uncountable) Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country.
- (countable) A devout or otherwise laudable act, thought, or statement.
- A platitude that may be empty or at least facile and undercommitted.
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Examples of "piety" in Sentences
- Consequently the term piety extends also to the divine worship.
- Helen looked on Miriam as a pretty ornament or toy, and Miriam gazed dubiously at what she called the piety of the other.
- 'She can't keep her attention fixed on anything, not even on her prayers, and what she calls piety I should call idleness.
- The question of what piety means or what the term piety refers to still needs to be answered, by finding the suitable reason.
- Reply Obj. 3: The relations of a man with his kindred and fellow-citizens are more referable to the principles of his being than other relations: wherefore the term piety is more applicable to them.
- France as well as Denmark, Carlyle and his school made some effort to justify their Germanism, by pitting what they called the piety and simplicity of Germany against what they called the cynicism and ribaldry of France.
- And God, who understands us well, has appointed them to keep us in a perpetual frame of love; for so ready is our bad nature to kindle with our good, and burn with it, that what we call our piety, is, otherwise, in constant danger of degenerating into a fiery, censorious, unmerciful and intolerant spirit.
- The ardent longing for some being above us, on whom we can lean when our own powers fail, -- the wonderful instinct which desires a faithful friend to whom we can tell every joy and sorrow without fear of disclosure, the thankfulness with which we behold this beautiful world and all the rich blessings we have received -- these are the feelings which we call piety -- devotion.
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