the quality or state of being pious; religious devotion
a conventional belief adhered to unthinkingly
the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism — Leslie Fiedler
an act inspired by piety
His soul took up again her burden of pieties, masses and prayers and sacraments and mortifications — James Joyce
dutifulness, esp to parents
filial piety
[Old French piete piety, pity, from Latin pietat-, pietas, from pius dutiful]