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Another word for piety

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piety

n.

Devotion to duty
fealty, filial allegiance, application; see loyalty.
Devotion to the service of God
reverence, duty, zeal; see devotion, holiness 1.
Pious remarks
lecture, preachment, preaching; see sermon.

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Another word for piety

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A state of often extreme religious ardour:

devotion, devoutness, pietism, piousness, religionism, religiosity, religiousness. See religion

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His face wore a calm look of piety and resignation to the will of God.
That his temperament at the same time was frigid and comparatively passionless cannot be denied; but neither ought this to be imputed to him as a fault; hostile criticisms upon the grief for a father's death, that " was soothed by the conscious satisfaction that I had discharged all the duties of filial piety," seem somewhat out of place.
In this capacity his sincere piety and amiable character gained him great influence.
In Celtic and English martyrologies (November 25) there is also commemorated St Catherine Audley (c. 1400), a recluse of Ledbury, Hereford, who was reputed for piety and clairvoyance.
The fifth book, De Justitia, maintains that true righteousness is not to be found apart from Christianity, and that it springs from piety which consists in the knowledge of God.

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