| 单词 | impious |
| 释义 | im·pi·ous a. < an impious life > b. < an impious son > < an impious flouting of experience — Donagh MacDonagh > < any alteration in the ceremonies that surrounded Thanksgiving would have been considered impious and heartbreaking by my mother — John Cheever > Synonyms: < the impious challenge of power divine — William Cowper > < who is there more impious than a backsliding priest? — John Steinbeck > profane in this sense may suggest not only the disrespect involved in impious but also desecration, intentional or not, of something to be held inviolate < hitherto no liberal statesman has been so audacious as to “imagine the king's death” and lay profane hands on the divine right of nations to seek their own advantage at the cost of the rest by such means as the rule of reason shall decide to be permissible — Thorstein Veblen > < I collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame — Mary W. Shelley > blasphemous may apply to strong and intentional impiety or profanation fervently expressed or performed or to the harboring and abetting of ideas calculated to lower the awesome dignity of a deity < blasphemous conversation > < it is blasphemous because it attributes to God purposes which we would not respect even in an earthly parent — J.A.Pike > sacrilegious commonly may describe any flagrant depredation, disrespect, or contempt < sacrilegious in his scandalous burlesques of the gods > All of these words lend themselves to broad and inexact uses. |
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