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piety
  1. (uncountable) reverence and devotion to God
  2. (uncountable) similar reverence to one's parents and family
  3. (countable) a devout act or thought
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    1. “Then, again, it is admitted that there are but few, very few, examples of unquestionable piety among very young persons.”
      “Brown's commitment to her family, piety to her church, and skill as a writer reveal a commendable balance in her character that can be seen in the text of her hymns.”
      “There are, however, in all these books, such genuine marks of integrity and piety, as must satisfy any reasonable person that no imposition or deception of any kind was intended by the writers.”
pietism
  1. (Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
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    1. “I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism.”
      “Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.”
      “Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience.”
piousness
  1. The condition of being pious; piety.
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    1. “Your Holiness, you are regarded as one of the greatest living icons of spirituality, piousness, truthfulness and righteousness.”
      “Confucian values of self-discipline and tolerance towards others, piousness towards parents, and respect for the elderly.”
      “It is hard to spend much time there without being weighed down by Martha's rigid sense of duty, her class consciousness, and her almost unbearable piousness.”
pietist
  1. A supporter of pietism.
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    1. “These Lutherans were pietist and puritanical, expecting the imminent apocalypse.”
      “Ruling the city was a power elite of native-born old Americans, hailing from New England, including lawyers, businessmen, and pietist Protestant ministers.”
      “Kanitz is a pietist and legitimist, while Blow is neither one nor the other.”
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pietists
pietisms
pieties
  1. plural of piety
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    1. “The pretensions and pieties of national leaders merit an outpouring of derision and scorn.”
      “There is no need to pay excessive deference to the political pieties and givens of the region.”
      “Jotted down, her words are broken, repetitive, a string of conventional pieties.”
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