英语词汇“pious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	pious
释义	pi·ous \ˈpīəs\ adjective Etymology: Latin pius; akin to Latin piare to appease, atone for, Oscan pihatu appeased, and perhaps to Latin purus pure — more at pure 1. a. : marked by or showing reverence for deity and zealous devotion to the duties and rites of religion : devout < the pious Jewish historian, who saw in Israel's exile God's punishment for sin — J.G.Frazer > < one society is genuinely pious, another is worldly-minded — A.L.Kroeber > < pious practices such as attendance at daily mass — T.F.McNally > b. : marked by conspicuous religiosity c. : of, relating to, or suggesting the sacred or devotional as distinct from the profane or secular : religious < pious papers devoted to the publication of … offerings made at sacred shrines — D.H.Wiest > < a pious opinion > < a pious hush in the atmosphere — Mary McCarthy > 2. : marked by or showing loyal reverence for and faithfully performing the duties owed to a person or thing (as a family, school, cause) : dutiful < undertaking the pious task of writing the life of an ancestor — Times Literary Supplement > < took me to pay a pious visit to my old school — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < hangs on to his pious Marxianism — H.A.Overstreet > 3. : perpetrated for a supposed good end < often the gap between the old rule and the new was bridged by a pious fraud of a fiction — B.N.Cardozo > 4. : being or relating to a use that is legally a charitable use 5. a. : characterized by pretense at propriety, virtue, benevolence, or devotion : given to or intended for the concealment of real feelings or intentions : marked by sham or hypocrisy < a world of arrogant acts accompanied by pious disclaimers — Rosemond Tuve > < pious noble phrases about ideals which serve only to cover up … iniquity — M.R.Cohen > b. : marked by politic or self-conscious virtue : virtuous < sick of your pious penny-pinching — Marcia Davenport > < put on pious expressions and were altogether very superior, if not stuffy — Edison Marshall > 6. : deserving commendation : commendable, worthy < the pious practice of sifting the past twelve months' new books for gold — W.T.Scott > specifically : displaying an ideal, a benevolent wish, or a good intention < international law was scoffed at as pious but impotent — W.E.Jackson b. 1919 > < a pious hope > < pious platitudes > Synonyms: see devout
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