Impiety Definition

ĭm-pīĭ-tē
impieties
noun
impieties
A lack of piety.
Webster's New World
The quality or state of being impious.
American Heritage
An impious act or remark.
Webster's New World
Undutifulness.
American Heritage

(uncountable) The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.

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Other Word Forms of Impiety

Noun

Singular:
impiety
Plural:
impieties

Origin of Impiety

  • From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas

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Impiety Sentence Examples

  • Popular belief regarded his subsequent illness as a judgment for his impiety.

  • According to the Homilies, the manner of his entering on his career of impiety was as follows.

  • In the Odyssey it is said that the gods disclosed the impiety.

  • He was kindly dismissed by the pope not long after, with a letter recommending him to the protection of the bishops of Tours and Angers, and another pronouncing anathema on all who should do him any injury or call him a heretic. He returned home, overwhelmed with shame and bowed down with sorrow for having a second time been guilty of a great impiety.

  • Some time after the capture of Jerusalem the ark was brought from Baal-Judah, but at the threshing-floor of Nacon (an unintelligible name) Abinadab's son Uzzah laid hands upon it and was struck down for his impiety.

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