| 释义 |
‖ pietas|piːˈeɪtɑːs|
[L.]
An attitude of respect towards an ancestor, scholarship, an institution, a country, etc.
1924J. Bailey Let. 27 Apr. (1935) 244 Both Llanthony, to which, of course, pietas specially draws me, and Llangammarch look very attractive. 1930N. & Q. 22 Feb. 143/1 Yet another Early English Text appears under the editorship of an American scholar, a new proof of pietas. 1944Horizon Sept. 188 And yet, with all his pietas, when Joyce died..he had not set foot in his native city for over thirty years. 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 26 Pietas—a habit of respect for gods, ancestors, parents, country, institutions. 1961Times 30 Nov. 16/2 Pietas is the curse of the commissioned biographer. 1965N. St. John-Stevas in Bagehot's Coll. Wks. I. 11 The Economist..has supported this undertaking, as..an act of pietas to its..most famous editor. 1976Church Times 16 Jan. 15/5 A requiem will be sung for him in St. Oswald's, Durham, with his music—not just as an act of pietas, but in gratitude to God for one who, although a man of his age, yet reminds us of several needs in today's Church. |