10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIOSITY»
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piosity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
piosity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Following his contact from Piosity Fletcher, Elio immediately ordered a contact to
Pauk and Jared to inform them. “I have been asked to participate in an
interplanetary debate regarding the use of the Seraisic Lens. I will require your
continued ...
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The Gam: being a group of whaling stories
... beginning with his boots, and when the fire crept up amidships he blew himself
to bits, like a bomb lance, and all the people yelled and jumped and crowed. Don'
t you call that pious, Rudder V " Well, t' ain't my notion of piosity. Piosity, boy, is ...
Charles Henry Robbins, 1899
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The Church School Journal
The great stories of the Bible are as fresh and charming as it never before heard
by mortal ears, and the words of Jesus come home to the child's mind with the
same surprise as to the minds of those to whom they were first spoken. Piosity” vs
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Many people confuse the meanings of piety and piosity. Piety is the exercise of
sincere honor and adoration of God. Piosity, on the other hand, substitutes
insincerity and hollowness, cloaked in a sham of piety, for the sake of onlookers.
B. Forrest Thompson, 2010
For the sake of accuracy in thinking and fairness of speech we sometimes call
this spurious pseudo-piety not piety at all, but mere “piosity.” Possibly the word
doesn't exist in the dictionaries, but it is convenient. Now our recent “piosity” is ...
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The Yale Literary Magazine
The first sketch is that of Piosity. He has the air of being good. As you look at him
you see it instantly, you cannot mistake it, yet a strange sensation comes over '
you. At last you have found " A creature quit: too bright or good For human
nature's ...
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To Promote, Defend, and Redeem: The Catholic Literary ...
He was frankly irritated with critics like Shuster and others who objected to "
piosity" in Catholic writing. Offering the alternative that would define the earliest
stages of the Catholic literary revival, he asserted that "if you can find one line of ...
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Me, Myself, and Eye: Who Do You Think You Are?
The former is the command of God, the latter the egocentric expression of
religious piosity. The former is a reflection of a faith relationship with the creator
God who is Himself holy. The latter reflects an attitude of independence, what
one has ...
Yesterday's evangelicals knew as well as we do that selfcentered seriousness
and posturing piosity of that sort is unspiritual and unbalancing, if not actually
unbalanced. (Did you know the word piosity, by the way? It's British slang, very
useful ...
Now, St. Andrew's Cross abhors "cant" and "piosity" above all things. Any other
attitude were impossible so long as it bears a name which signifies " manly." It
therefore asks its readers to think about these phrases, and to be more careful in
...
Hubert Carleton, George Herbert Randall, Leon C. Palmer, 1894
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIOSITY»
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Montford Park Players' 'Tartuffe' nails clever script
Seventeenth century French playwright Moliere wrote a fabulous satire that skillfully skewers pretend piety and pompous piosity using ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jul 14»
