pious
IPA: pˈaɪʌs
adjective
- Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
- Relating to religion or religious works.
- Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
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Examples of "pious" in Sentences
- She is a pious Christian.
- He was pious and peaceable.
- The pious person achieved sublimity and nearness to God.
- He is the pious, the pure, the guide, and the rightly guided.
- He was very fond of the company of the learned and the pious.
- The pious young scholar spread far and wide the spirit of Chassidus.
- He was the first of nine children born to the family of pious farmers.
- The wood blocks are testimony to the pious devotion of king and his people.
- After the reign of Louis the Pious the capitularies became long and diffuse.
- In this sense she is very much the opposite of the standard of the pious queen.
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