'''Piety''' is the quality of being religious or reverent. [[Corporal and spiritual works of mercy]] are also called "acts of piety and charity".
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'''Piety''' is the quality of being religious or reverent. [[Corporal and spiritual works of mercy]] are also called "acts of piety and charity". The word stems from the Latin term ''pietas'', which more accurately translates into [[Filial piety]]. The religious aspect of the term stems from the adjective ''pius'', which translates into "holy" in Late Latin.
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:::''‘the accepted pieties of our time’''<ref>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/piety</ref>
:::''‘the accepted pieties of our time’''<ref>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/piety</ref>