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piety Definition

pi·ety (pī′ə tē)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. devotion to religious duties and practices
  2. loyalty and devotion to parents, family, etc.
  3. a pious act, statement, belief, etc.

Etymology: OFr pieté < LL(Ec) pietas, duty to God < L, dutiful conduct, scrupulousness < pius: see pious

piety Synonyms

piety

n.

  1. Devotion to duty

    fealty, filial allegiance, application; see loyalty.

  2. Devotion to the service of God

    reverence, duty, zeal; see devotion, holiness 1.

  3. Pious remarks

    lecture, preachment, preaching; see sermon.

piety Usage Examples

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 ).