piety 的定义
plural pi·e·ties.
- reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations: a prayer full of piety.
- the quality or state of being pious: saintly piety.
- dutiful respect or regard for parents, homeland, etc.: filial piety.
- a pious act, remark, belief, or the like: the pieties and sacrifices of an austere life.
piety 近义词
devotion, religiousness
更多piety例句
- She breaks rules when it’s the only way to reassert the importance of filial piety.
- “It seems that the different standard is (based on) the length of the beard and outwardly display of piety,” Hamdani said.
- And he is to give this permission only to a priest “who has piety, knowledge, prudence and integrity of life.”
- His policies helped engender the rise of an intolerant and severe nationalism that conflates piety with patriotism.
- Once they win, these principles get absorbed into common sense—and, of course, get betrayed left and right, like any civic piety.
- Before, his actions had been closely aligned church policies, which were basically a CYA masquerading as piety.
- Certainly captain Merveilles and his people showed unusual piety.
- This stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.
- I came here, as I supposed, a fairly good Christian, with an average amount of piety and an average number of faults.
- And for this reason the first help should be given to this State, and not to what has the pretext of piety.
- To me the national affectation of piety and holiness resembles a white shirt put on over a dirty skin.