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PRONUNCIATION OF PIETIES

pieties  [ˈpaɪɪtɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIETIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pieties is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PIETIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Piety

In spiritual terminology, piety is a virtue that can mean religious devotion, spirituality, or a combination of both. A common element in most conceptions of piety is humility.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PIETIES


amenities
əˈmiːnɪtɪz
capabilities
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪz
celebrities
sɪˈlebrɪtɪz
charities
ˈtʃærɪtɪz
communities
kəˈmjuːnɪtɪz
complexities
kəmˈpleksɪtɪz
densities
ˈdensɪtɪz
entities
ˈentɪtɪz
equities
ˈɛkwɪtɪz
facilities
fəˈsɪlɪtɪz
festivities
fɛsˈtɪvɪtɪz
hostilities
hɒˈstɪlɪtɪz
humanities
hjuːˈmænɪtɪz
liabilities
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪz
localities
ləʊˈkælɪtɪz
minorities
maɪˈnɒrɪtɪz
proprieties
prəˈpraɪɪtɪz
qualities
ˈkwɒlɪtɪz
securities
sɪˈkjʊərɪtɪz
universities
ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsɪtɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIETIES

pierrette
Pierrot
piert
Piesporter
piet
piet-my-vrou
Pietas Julia
Pietermaritzburg
Pietersburg
pietism
pietist
pietistic
pietistical
pietistically
Pietro da Cortona
piety
piezochemistry
piezoelectric
piezoelectric crystal

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIETIES

activities
anxieties
contrarieties
dubieties
entireties
gaieties
impieties
improprieties
moieties
naiveties
naughty nineties
niceties
nimieties
nineties
safeties
societies
subtleties
sureties
the naughty nineties
the proprieties
varieties

Synonyms and antonyms of pieties in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PIETIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pieties» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pieties

Translation of «pieties» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PIETIES

Find out the translation of pieties to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pieties from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pieties» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

虔诚
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

piedades
570 millions of speakers

English

pieties
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pieties
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التقوى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

благочестию
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

devoções
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pieties
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

piété
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pieties
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Frömmigkeiten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pieties
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하겠다는거야?
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pieties
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lòng mộ đạo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pieties
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पाईटीज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dindarlıklar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

devozioni
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pieties
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

благочестю
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pietățile
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευσεβισμούς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pieties
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

religiositeten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pieties
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pieties

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIETIES»

The term «pieties» is normally little used and occupies the 123.329 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PIETIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pieties» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pieties» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pieties

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIETIES»

Discover the use of pieties in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pieties and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pieties and Gender
Taking up the challenge of Saba Mahmood to feminist studies in religion, that there is a liberalist understanding of agency and a tendency to mix the feminist political project with the analytical, the authors of this anthology discuss the ...
L. E. Sjrup, Hilda Rømer Christensen, 2009
2
Pieties in Transition: Religious Practices and Experiences, ...
This significant and innovative collection explores the changing piety of townspeople and villagers before, during, and after the Reformation.
Robert Lutton, Elisabeth Salter, 2007
3
Transatlantic Pieties: Dutch Clergy in Colonial America
Proceedings of conferences held at the First Reformed Church, New Brunswick, N.J., and at Hope College, Holland, Mich.
Leon Van Den Broeke, Hans Krabbendam, Dirk Mouw, 2013
4
An Art of Emergent Visual Rhetoric
For digital communication tasks of increasing complexity, like building a Web page, production pieties become even stronger and more pronounced—even, or especially, for producers who appear to be somewhat experienced in digital ...
Karl Andrew Stolley, 2007
5
The Christian Moral Life: Practices of Piety
While these three pieties may share a common set of convictions, each of these pieties is distinct in its emphasis, because one is reacting to another. Traditional pieties, with their emphasis on duties and obligations, can lose touch with the ...
Timothy F. Sedgwick, 2008
6
American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces
... in the mythic traditions of whatever culture produces it. We, in the West, should not therefore think of our historicist tradition as somehow opposing myth but as simply another mythic expression. In China, for 10. Mythic Pieties of Permanence.
Louis P. Nelson, 2006
7
Dissonant Pieties: John Calvin and the Prayer Psalms of the ...
This interest climaxed in his formulation of four basic rules for proper prayer, rules that he applied in his extensive commentary on the book of Psalms, which dominated his last several years.
Paul A. Riemann, 2013
8
Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to ...
5. /. Recapitulating. Pieties. «? natures. NATION IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the fall of 1982, in the mid- American heartland of Nashville, Indiana, a group of young people launched Earth Nation Sunrise. Already organized as the ...
Catherine L. Albanese, 1991
9
Nicolas Slonimsky: Early articles for the Boston evening ...
THE. PSALMS. AND. PIETIES. OF. IGOR. STRAVINSKY. December. 13,. 1930. Memories and Reflections for Prelude to His New Symphony The new piety of Igor Stravinsky, whose name has for so many years been associated with paganism ...
Nicolas Slonimsky, Electra Yourke, 2004
10
Lollardy and Orthodox Religion in Pre-Reformation England: ...
2. Family. Pieties. and. Urban. Identity. In order to place Tenterden's religious culture in a broad comparative perspective, a considerable part of this chapter is devoted to quantitative description of the level of popularity over time of the various ...
Robert Lutton, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIETIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pieties is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Our Potemkin Life
Our pieties play up Christ's affirming love, not His atoning sacrifice. If we emphasized the cross, we would confess that we adore a god more ... «First Things, Jul 15»
2
Understanding the US War State. “Watching the War Crime Unfold”
Formal pieties and aversion of the facts ruled. The Secretary-General was congratulated for removing the inspection teams on the instruction of ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
3
The end of liberalism?
Keeping 'core liberal values' alive is not simply a case of rehearsing standard pieties. It demands deep and challenging thought about what is ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
4
Saul, Glyndebourne, review: 'utterly enthralling'
It's a knockout that brings the work blazingly alive and transforms bewigged pieties into high human drama. To hell with sacred solemnity. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
Brown and pope are kindred spirits on climate change
But in the end our governor is left to rely on the pieties of environmental politics. And so it was fitting that the governor would end his Vatican ... «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
6
Why E-Sports Leagues Shouldn't Drug Test Players
That's why this feels to me like a bit of a lost opportunity to step beyond the pieties that have long dominated traditional athletics, to set e-sports ... «Reason, Jul 15»
7
COONEY: Factory farms and Republican labor policy
This is capitalism minus the pieties that mask its true nature. As the industrial revolution took hold, first in Britain and then in the U.S., factories ... «Central Kentucky News, Jul 15»
8
Mona Charon: The anger games
The civil pieties that were once taken for granted in the political sphere -- "all men are created equal" -- are now controversial. The triumph of ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
9
The Senate wants more Reach for the Top on CBC. Seriously?
Still, if the Tory majority on the committee wants to make an argument for PBS North, then why can't the senators confront pieties about national ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
10
Tyrrell - It Makes One Wonder What Could Possibly Happen Next
What will be the consequence of this outburst of false pieties, I really do not know. But looking back over Obama's past utterances, I think it is ... «Ponca City News, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Pieties [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pieties>. May 2024 ».
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