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piousness

Variant of pious

adjective

  1. having or showing religious devotion; zealous in the performance of religious obligations
  2. springing from actual or pretended religious devotion or moral motives
  3. seemingly virtuous; affecting virtue hypocritically
  4. sacred, as distinguished from secular or profane
  5. Archaic having or showing a sense of duty and loyalty to family, friends, etc.

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