Sentence examples for the piety from inspiring English sources

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the piety

noun

Reverence and devotion to God

  • Colleen's piety led her to make sacrifices that most people would not have made.

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Teenage martyrdom — the piety of it all.

The piety of Almendárez's show is laced with mild raunchiness.

Profanities and atrocities mixed in with the piety.

In the piety primary, the Democrats win hands down.

But the piety takes a backseat to the welcome glimmers of grit.

Bentham's real achievement was to squeeze the piety out of Enlightenment talk of "rights".

Donald Burrows has emphasized the piety and workmanship of this seemingly worldly, lordly figure.

Unlike Mr Boyle, if you'll excuse the piety, I cannot bring myself to mock the weak.

Questioning – Heidegger will opine much later in his career – is the piety of thinking.

His books include Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief (Routledge, 2002).

There are occasional flashes of the piety that some later found so annoying.

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