Piety is devotion to God or to religious practices. Nuns who pray all day long are famous for their piety. If you have filial piety it means you're devoted to your parents.
Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.
Noun
righteousness by virtue of being pious
n.
Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of
his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest
devotion to his service.
n.
Duty; dutifulness; filial reverence and devotion;
affectionate reverence and service shown toward parents, relatives,
benefactors, country, etc.
Piety
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man.2.
Conferred upon me for the piety Which to my country I was judged to have shown.
Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.
Usage Examples
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Faith is never identical with piety.
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
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Other Usage ExamplesFor though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
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