piously / ˈpaɪ əs /

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piously 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
  2. characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
  3. practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
  4. of or relating to religious devotion; sacred rather than secular: pious literature.
  5. having or showing appropriate respect or regard for parents or others.

piously 近义词

piously

等同于 justly

piously

等同于 spiritually

piously 的近义词 2

更多piously例句

  1. In a typical sally, Nixon piously intoned, “I know what it means to be poor.”
  2. As soon as any become vacant, I shall take care to provide for them as speedily as possible, as your Majesty so piously orders me.
  3. At the middle altar was the mandarin, piously engaged in prayer, while two stood beside him, fanning him with large fans.
  4. The festivals were more numerous in Rome than in Greece, and perhaps were more piously observed.
  5. But at a period more piously illiterate, things of this shadowy nature were linked very closely to objects of a material kind.
  6. At one side of the chancel arch there is a reading desk, which looks piously at a pulpit, made just like it, on the opposite side.