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ˈpaɪ ɪ tipiety
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
piety
Piety is primarily filial duty, as of children to parents, and hence, in its highest sense, a loving obedience and service to God as the Heavenly Father; pietism often denotes a mystical, sometimes an affected piety; religion is the reverent acknowledgment both in heart and in act of a divine being. Religion, in the fullest and highest sense, includes all the other words of this group. Worship may be external and formal, or it may be the adoring reverence of the human spirit for the divine, seeking outward expression. Devotion, which in its fullest sense is self-consecration, is often used to denote an act of worship, especially prayer or adoration; as, he is engaged in his devotions. Morality is the system and practise of duty as required by the moral law, consisting chiefly in outward acts, and thus may be observed without spiritual rectitude of heart; morality is of necessity included in all true religion, which involves both outward act and spiritual service. Godliness (primarily godlikeness) is a character and spirit like that of God. Holiness is the highest, sinless perfection of any spirit, whether divine or human, tho often used for purity or for consecration. Theology is the science of religion, or the study and scientific statement of all that the human mind can know of God. Faith, strictly the belief and trust which the soul exercises toward God, is often used as a comprehensive word for a whole system of religion considered as the object of faith; as, the Christian faith; the Mohammedan faith.
Synonyms:
devotion, faith, godliness, holiness, morality, pietism, religion, righteousness, theology, worshipAntonyms:
atheism, blasphemy, godlessness, impiety, irreligion, profanity, sacrilege, unbelief, ungodliness, wickedness
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
piety
Synonyms:
religion, devotion, godliness, holiness, grace, reverence, sanctityAntonyms:
irreligion, impiety, ungodliness, sinfulness, profanity, hypocrisy, formalism, sanctimoniousness, phariseeism
Princeton's WordNet
piety, piousnessnoun
righteousness by virtue of being pious
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piousnessAntonyms:
impiety, impiousness
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2021 | religion | |
#2241 | faith | |
#4043 | grace | |
#4940 | worship | |
#8158 | mercy | |
#8485 | theology | |
#12948 | morality | |
#16050 | devotion | |
#17802 | righteousness | |
#21174 | holiness | |
#28041 | reverence | |
#35677 | piety | |
#35754 | sanctity | |
#66702 | godliness | |
#217810 | pietism |
How to use piety in a sentence?
Whosoever hath not knowledge, and benevolence, and piety knoweth nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in semblance.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924:
Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
Barbarism will deliver you no glory -- piety to evil will bring you no dignity. If you choose the path of terror, your life will be empty, your life will be brief, and your soul will be condemned. he clearly thinks terrorism is fueled by religion.
The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Translations for piety
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- اسلام, بر, تقوى, تقىArabic
- pietatCatalan, Valencian
- zbožnostCzech
- Pietät, Fr, FrömmigkeitGerman
- ευσέβεια, σεβασμόςGreek
- piedadSpanish
- kunnioitus, hurskausFinnish
- piétéFrench
- crábhadh, cráifeachtIrish
- cràbhadhScottish Gaelic
- craueeaghtManx
- vallásosság, áhitatHungarian
- kesalehanIndonesian
- pietàItalian
- אדיקותHebrew
- 敬愛, 篤信Japanese
- 경건Korean
- pietatem,Latin
- pietāteLatvian
- vroomheidDutch
- fromhetNorwegian
- pobożnośćPolish
- piedadePortuguese
- evlavie, pietateRomanian
- набожность, благочестиеRussian
- lòng mộ đạoVietnamese
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