All 11 Uses of
pious
in
Death Comes for the Archbishop
- —and she rejoiced no less than he that his May devotions were so largely attended, especially by the young people of the parish, in whom a notable increase of piety was manifest.†
Part 7 *piety = religious or highly moral belief/behavior OR (more rarely) devotion or faithfulness
- This Franciscan had considerable success, with his tales of pious Indian converts and struggling missions.†
Part Pro.
- When Father Latour asked her to give him his portion without chili, the girl inquired whether it was more pious to eat it like that.†
Part 1
- The Bishop went into his study, and Father Vaillant brought in Padre Escolastico Herrera, a man of nearly seventy, who had been forty years in the ministry, and had just accomplished the pious desire of a lifetime.†
Part 1
- Even the bones were piously preserved.†
Part 3
- During all that time the pious girl had preserved her virginity by a succession of miracles.†
Part 5
- In both towns the greater part of the population went over to the schismatic church, though some pious Mexicans, in great perplexity, attended Mass at both.†
Part 5
- She told him also how precious to them were Father Vaillant's long letters, letters in which he told his sister of the country, the Indians, the pious Mexican women, the Spanish martyrs of old.†
Part 6
- Even after that rebuff a very pious neighbour woman had tried to say a word to Sada through the alley door of the stable, where she was unloading wood off the burro.†
Part 7
- If they endured martyrdom, they died among their brethren, their relics were piously preserved, their names lived in the mouths of holy men.†
Part 9
- They found these people gentle, pious, and well-spoken.†
Part 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral
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(2)
(pious as in: a pious hypocrite) self-righteous (acting as though one is, or believing one is highly moral when it is not true)
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(3)
(pious as in: cling to the pious hope) (describing a hope or wish as) sincere, but highly unlikely