n., pl. -ties.

1. The state or quality of being pious, especially:
   1. Religious devotion and reverence to God.
   2. Devotion and reverence to parents and family: filial piety.
2. A devout act, thought, or statement.
3. 1. A position held conventionally or hypocritically.
   2. A statement of such a position: “the liberated pieties of people who believe that social attitudes have kept pace with women's aspirations” (Erica Abeel).

[Middle English piete, mercy, pity, from Old French, from Latin pietās, dutiful conduct, from pius, dutiful.]

noun

A state of often extreme religious ardour: devotion, devoutness, pietism, piousness, religionism, religiosity, religiousness. See religion.

n

Definition: devotion, religiousness
Antonyms: impiety, irreverence

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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man.

    The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
    To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.
                                                              Judibras

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Quotes:

"Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious." - Daisy Ashford

"You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time." - William Blake

"A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety." - Samuel Johnson

"Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence." - Samuel Johnson

"I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness." - Anthony Trollope

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fromhed

Nederlands (Dutch)
vroomheid, piëteit

Français (French)
n. - piété, pratique pieuse

Deutsch (German)
n. - Frömmigkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ευλάβεια, ευσέβεια, θρησκοληψία

Italiano (Italian)
pietà, devozione, amore

Português (Portuguese)
n. - piedade (f), lealdade (f)

Русский (Russian)
набожность

Español (Spanish)
n. - piedad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fromhet, pietet

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
虔诚, 孝行

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 虔誠, 孝行

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 경건, 효성, 애국심

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 敬虔, 信心, 敬虔な行為

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تقوى, تقى, ورع, إكرام الوالدين‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮דתיות, חסידות, אדיקות‬

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