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piety - use in sentences
Converse of object
- show: Paul said to Timothy: ' Learn first to show piety at home ' .
- emerge: But this training for a career as a blue-stocking did not run against her emerging piety.
- teach: Example of filial piety The early Buddhist texts not only teach filial piety as a duty, but also show some examples of it.
- have: Instead of the two minute hate, we have the three minute piety.
- call: VI ) called filial piety; and that they faithfully observe it is constantly shown.
- lay: The first part of the paper examines relics and guides and their role in lay piety.
Converse of subject
- drive: Driven by piety and PR, medieval notables from St Francis of Assisi to El Cid walked to Santiago and most made conspicuous donations.
Adjective modifier
- filial: In a touching display of filial piety, she told me it's " a picture of your bottom, Daddy " .
- unaffected: Unaffected piety, simplicity of manners, and warm benevolence drew to him the affection and esteem of ' his acquaintance.
- sincere: He was a candid, upright, and benevolent man, of liberal sentiments and sincere piety.
- popular: For much of the popular piety of today lives off the intellectual capital built up by scholars of the past.
- genuine: Such power resides in true faith - in genuine piety.
- religious: I'm open to opinions of profound and broad variety, Unless they're too conservative and smack of religious piety.
Noun used with modifier
- thy: Rejoice, thou who in thy piety giveth cheer to the faithful!
- century: A lovely early 20th century piety, I thought, which I liked very much.
Possessives
- woman: Her specialist interests include medieval hospitals and religious and social attitudes to charity and the poor, and lay women's piety.
Preposition: of
- psalm: This is because the piety of the psalms is quite alien to the piety that prevails in many contemporary churches.
- people: Kings of countries were confident of the general piety of the people, and need not penalize them for worshipping this god or that.
- man: We need not question the piety of the men who composed the creed; yet, none the less, what is the result?
- sunnism: Strict Wahhabis consider the theology and piety of mainline Sunnism to be kufr ( disbelief ).
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