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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". | '''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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| + | ==Definition== | ||
| + | :'''NOUN''' Plural ('''pieties''') | ||
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| + | ''[mass noun]'' | ||
| + | :1. The quality of being religious or reverent. | ||
| + | :: ''‘acts of piety and charity’'' | ||
| + | ::1.1 ''[count noun]'' A belief which is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence. | ||
| + | :::''‘the accepted pieties of our time’''<ref>https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/piety</ref> | ||
Compare [[Filial piety]]. | Compare [[Filial piety]]. | ||
Revision as of 07:57, March 28, 2018
Piety is the quality of being religious or reverent. Corporal and spiritual works of mercy are also called "acts of piety and charity".
Definition
- NOUN Plural (pieties)
[mass noun]
- 1. The quality of being religious or reverent.
- ‘acts of piety and charity’
- 1.1 [count noun] A belief which is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence.
- ‘the accepted pieties of our time’[1]
Compare Filial piety.