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" Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
Alan Dundes

Meaning of "piety" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PIETY

Piete, from Old French, from Latin pietās piety, dutifulness, from piuspious.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PIETY

ˈpaɪɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIETY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Piety 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 PIETY 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.

Definition of piety in the English dictionary

The first definition of piety in the dictionary is dutiful devotion to God and observance of religious principles. Other definition of piety is the quality or characteristic of being pious. Piety is also a pious action, saying, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PIETY

antianxiety · anxiety · aureity · dubiety · extemporaneity · garden-variety · gaseity · gayety · impiety · impropriety · inebriety · insatiety · insobriety · laity · moiety · nimiety · overanxiety · satiety · ubiety · variety

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIETY

piet · piet-my-vrou · Pietas Julia · Pietermaritzburg · Pietersburg · pieties · pietism · pietist · pietistic · pietistical · pietistically · Pietro da Cortona · piezochemistry · piezoelectric · piezoelectric crystal · piezoelectric effect · piezoelectrically · piezoelectricity · piezomagnetic · piezomagnetic effect

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIETY

benefit society · Big Society · building society · civic society · civil society · consumer society · debating society · friendly society · high society · honor society · humane society · Law Society · notoriety · polite society · propriety · Royal Society · secret society · separation anxiety · sobriety · society

Synonyms and antonyms of piety in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PIETY»

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

Translation of «piety» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PIETY

Find out the translation of piety to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of piety from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «piety» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

虔诚
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

piedad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

piety
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

धर्मपरायणता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التقوى
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

благочестие
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

piedade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ভক্তি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

piété
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ketakwaan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Frömmigkeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

敬虔
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

신앙심
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Piety
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đạo đức
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பக்தி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

धार्मिकता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

dindarlık
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

devozione
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pobożność
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

благочестя
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

pietate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευσέβεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vroomheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fromhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fromhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of piety

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIETY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of piety
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «piety».

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

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PIETY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word piety.
1
Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with piety.
2
Alain de Botton
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
3
Craig Brown
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
4
John Denham
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
5
Georges Duhamel
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
6
Alan Dundes
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
7
Samuel Horsley
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
8
King Hussein I
Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.
9
Jodi Kantor
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.
10
Omar Khayyam
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIETY»

Discover the use of piety in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to piety and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal assumptions by which some people hold such movements to account.
Saba Mahmood, 2011
2
Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images
Drawing from the fields of music, sociology, theology, philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics, "Visual Piety" is the first book to bring to specialist and lay reader alike an understanding of religious imagery's place in the social ...
David Morgan, 1997
3
An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
By emphasizing the ways notions of modernity and piety are lived, debated, and shaped by "everyday Islamists," this book underscores the inseparability of piety and politics in the lives of pious Muslims.
Lara Deeb, 2011
4
Filial Piety: Practice and Discourse in Contemporary East Asia
This book is an ideal text for social science and humanities courses on East Asia because it focuses on shared cultural practices while analyzing the ways these practices vary with local circumstances of history, economics, social ...
Charlotte Ikels, 2004
5
Medieval Piety from Relics to the Eucharist: A Process of ...
qVeneration of the Host and of saintly relics can only be understood as closely interrelated aspects of medieval piety. This book offers a rich account of one of the most revealing dimensions of medieval belief and practice.
Godefridus J. C. Snoek, 1995
6
Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of ...
Interdisciplinary in scope, Performing Piety paints a nuanced picture of the lived experience of Guadalupan devotion in which different forms of knowing, socio-economic and political coping tactics, conceptions of history, and faith-based ...
Elaine A. Peña, 2011
7
Democratic Piety: Complexity, Conflict and Violence
This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics.
Adrian Little, 2008
8
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England
These stories are prefaced by an overview of nuns' reading and their surviving books, and are followed by a survey of women who owned the first printed books in England.
Mary C. Erler, 2006
9
Russian Piety
The history of Orthodox spirituality in its Russian forms. Many texts unknown in the West are translated here. Indispensable for understanding the complex history of Russia and her Church.
Nicholas Arseniev, 1964
10
Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence
. . . This book recovers more vividly than other recent works what it meant to be a member of a confraternity in the late middle ages."—Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Economic History Review "Henderson offers new and fascinating information. . .
John Henderson, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIETY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term piety is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Four shot in Desire neighborhood Sunday, one victim critical: NOPD …
New Orleans police said they are investigating the shooting of a man Sunday night (July 26) near the intersection of Piety and Treasure streets ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
2
Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion
... has been taught that what we need from them is willfully incurious, self-flagellating piety, of a kind that has helped no group in human history. «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
3
Love, humour, satire, song and struggle in Jakarta
... the mellifluous Titi, tough, tender and full of familial piety; talented Boni with the sad childhood and ridiculously boyish face. Soon these three ... «Qantara.de, Jul 15»
4
Readers sound off on Trump and vets, abortion and hot dogs
His piety is skin-deep. Friedrich has stated that “blowing things up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation” and ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
5
What I Saw At My Catholic Friends' Wedding
It was not a stilted, self-inflated, disingenuous piety, but the humble, sincere devotion of a couple to their God in the presence of all of their loved ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
6
German Protestants apologise for Reformation iconoclasm
“The Protestant Church rejects the destruction of images. Images have long since become an expression of Protestant piety,” Protestant Bishop ... «The Tablet, Jul 15»
7
Historic tombs have been restored in Timbuktu
The saints were renowned for their scholarship as well as their piety, and their memorials formed part of the Timbuktu World Heritage Site, the ... «Frost Illustrated, Jul 15»
8
How Right-Wing Groups Hope to Chip Away at Rules Allowing Us to …
Piety is author of, Brandishing the First Amendment: Commercial Expression in America, and a report released this week by the Corporate ... «Truth-Out, Jul 15»
9
Local DAR to host veterans at Dream Cruise
The Daughters of the American Revolution's Piety Hill Chapter will host veterans at the 2015 Woodward Dream Cruise. For the fifth year, the ... «Hometownlife.com, Jul 15»
10
Ageing together: It takes a nation
She says cultivating values like filial piety by stressing on the importance of family bonds through education, is preferable. “We have nine ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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