Synonyms for piety
ˈpaɪ ɪ tipiety

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1. 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, worship

   Antonyms:
   atheism, blasphemy, godlessness, impiety, irreligion, profanity, sacrilege, unbelief, ungodliness, wickedness

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1. piety

   Synonyms:
   religion, devotion, godliness, holiness, grace, reverence, sanctity

   Antonyms:
   irreligion, impiety, ungodliness, sinfulness, profanity, hypocrisy, formalism, sanctimoniousness, phariseeism

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1. piety, piousnessnoun

   righteousness by virtue of being pious

   Synonyms:
   piousness

   Antonyms:
   impiety, impiousness

Matched Categories

1. • Righteousness

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1. pietynoun

   Synonyms:
   filial reverence

2. pietynoun

   Synonyms:
   godliness, religion, devotion, holiness, sanctity, grace

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1. pietynoun

   Synonyms:
   sanctity, godliness, holiness

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1. List of paraphrases for "piety":

   devotion, mercy

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1. Aristotle:

   Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

2. 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.

3. Hannah More:

   My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.

4. Saadi Shirazi:

   Whosoever hath not knowledge, and benevolence, and piety knoweth nothing of reality, and dwelleth only in semblance.

5. Ebrahim Moosa:

   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.