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piety Definition


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piety
noun
    1. Dutifulness; devoutness.
    2. The quality of being pious, dutiful or religiously devout.
      Thesaurus: devotion, loyalty, fealty, faith, piousness, duty, reverence, sanctity, veneration.
    3. Sense of duty towards parents, benefactors, etc.
Etymology: 17c in this sense: 14c in the obsolete sense ‘pity', from Latin pietas dutifulness or piety.



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