| 单词 | piety |
| 释义 | piety (once / 523 pages) n 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. Piety is sometimes used in a disapproving way to mean that the person is only pretending to be devoted or good. Piety was borrowed from French pieté "piety, pity," from Latin pietas, from pius "devoted, kind." This Latin adjective is the source of our English adjective pious. WORD FAMILYpiety: pieties USAGE EXAMPLESMaybe he hopes Mr. Putin will see him as a kindred spirit: Big hombre, instinctive nationalist, zero use for liberals and their pieties. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Despite marrying and fathering several children, Rasputin abandoned family life in search of Orthodox Christian religious devotion and piety. Time(Dec 29, 2016) Conservative men tell of being ousted from the staunchly secularist military because of their piety. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) n righteousness by virtue of being pious Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper piousness impiety, impiousness unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god devoutness, religiousness piety by virtue of being devout dutifulnesspiety by virtue of devotion to duty godlinesspiety by virtue of being a godly person pietism, religionism, religiosity, religiousismexaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal righteousness adhering to moral principles |
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