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单词 piety
释义 pi·e·ty
\ˈpīəd.ē, -ətē, -i\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: French pieté piety, pity, from Latin pietat-, pietas, from pius dutiful, kindly — more at pious
1. : the quality or state of being pious: as
 a. : fidelity to natural obligations : devoted loyalty to parents, family, or race
 b. : dutifulness in religion : habitual reverence for God or accepted deities : zeal in religious service or worship : devoutness
  < a man noted for his piety and devotion to the Church — R.P.Casey >
 c. : religious simplicity and devotion : pietism
  < was sympathetic to the piety of the revivalists — J.C.Brauer >
2. : an act inspired by piety : an instance of devotion
 < the pieties of a simple life justly and charitably lived >
3. : the moral or spiritual resources of an individual or a group
 < has achieved the broadest, most harmonious synthesis of living writers, but only after a drastic cross-examination of his deepest pieties — H.J.Muller >
4. : a conventional belief or standard : orthodoxy, sanction
 < massed social pieties … were invested in the established economic order — David Riesman >
Synonyms: see fidelity
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