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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug

Meaning of "pious" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PIOUS

From Latin pius, related to piāre to expiate.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PIOUS

pious  [ˈpaɪəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PIOUS 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 pious in the English dictionary

The first definition of pious in the dictionary is having or expressing reverence for a god or gods; religious; devout. Other definition of pious is marked by reverence. Pious is also marked by false reverence; sanctimonious.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PIOUS


Abdias
æbˈdaɪəs
Ananias
ˌænəˈnaɪəs
bias
ˈbaɪəs
Caius
ˈkaɪəs
Elias
ɪˈlaɪəs
eyas
ˈaɪəs
Ezechias
ˌɛzɪˈkaɪəs
Gaius
ˈɡaɪəs
hamadryas
ˌhæməˈdraɪəs
Josias
dʒəʊˈsaɪəs
Laius
ˈlaɪəs
Lias
ˈlaɪəs
Malachias
ˌmæləˈkaɪəs
Matthias
məˈθaɪəs
nyas
ˈnaɪəs
semipious
ˌsɛmɪˈpaɪəs
Sophonias
ˌsɒfəˈnaɪəs
Trias
ˈtraɪəs
unbias
ʌnˈbaɪəs
Zacharias
ˌzækəˈraɪəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIOUS

piolet
pion
pioneer
Pioneer 10
Pioneer 11
pioneer spirit
Pioneer Total Abstinence Association
pioneer work
pioneering
pioneering spirit
pionic
pioning
piopio
piosity
pious hope
piously
piousness
Piozzi
pip
pip-emma

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIOUS

ambitious
anxious
conscious
curious
delicious
furious
glorious
hilarious
infectious
luxurious
mysterious
obvious
precious
prestigious
previous
religious
serious
spacious
suspicious
various

Synonyms and antonyms of pious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PIOUS»

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

Translation of «pious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PIOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

虔诚的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

devoto
570 millions of speakers

English

pious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

धर्मपरायण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تقي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

благочестивый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

devoto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধার্মিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pieux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Alim
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fromm
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

敬虔な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

독실한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Alim
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sùng đạo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தயாள
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धार्मिक वृत्तीचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dindar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pobożny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

благочестивий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pios
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευσεβείς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vroom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

from
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fromme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIOUS»

The term «pious» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.338 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PIOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pious» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pious» 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 pious

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10 QUOTES WITH «PIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pious.
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Daisy Ashford
Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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Jeffrey Bell
I really do believe that no one is too pious to fall or too far gone to be redeemed in some way. Jaime Lannister on 'Game of Thrones' did terrible things, and now I feel so bad for him because his sister won't kiss him. Isn't that weird? Does she not love him? He lost a hand! It kills me that I care.
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Madhur Bhandarkar
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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Conrad Black
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
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Lionel Blue
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
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Norman Borlaug
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
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Simon Callow
Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.
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Martin Chemnitz
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
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Aleister Crowley
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
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Greg Graffin
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIOUS»

Discover the use of pious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pious
Carpious Mightson is not who he appears to be, wearing the guise of a handsome leader of virtue.
Kenn Bivins, 2010
2
Pious and Rebellious: Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.
Avraham Grossman, 2012
3
Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the ...
Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism.
Martin Riesebrodt, 1993
4
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: Lives by Einhard, Notker, ...
"Translations of ninth-century lives of the emperors Charlemagne (by Einhard and Notker) and his son Louis the Pious (by Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer).
Thomas F. X. Noble, 2010
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Many Pious Women: Edition and Translation
This work is of importance to anyone with an interest in whether women, especially Jewish Ashkenazic women, had a Renaissance.
Harry Fox, Justin Jaron Lewis, 2011
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Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith
For its insights into questions of faith, decadence, and transcendence, this book is an important contribution to Nietzsche studies, philosophy, and religion.
Bruce Ellis Benson, 2007
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Pious: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Websters Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).
‎2008
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A Pious Seductress: Studies in the Book of Judith
The present volume contains papers delivered at the International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, held at the Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest, Hungary, 14–16 May, 2009.
Géza G. Xeravits, 2012
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Pious
Carpious Mightson is not who he appears to be while portraying all that he isn't!
Kenn Bivins, 2010
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Pious Traders in Medicine: A German Pharmaceutical Network ...
The sources documented a pious trade in medicines, not only within Germany, but across Europe and the oceans, to Tranquebar in East India and to North America. The trade was driven largely by the need of the Foundations to invest and ...
Renate Wilson, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pious is used in the context of the following news items.
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There's nothing normal about birth
... minimise intervention during childbirth when you can dress it up in pious jargon designed to make patients feel guilty for being “abnormal”? «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
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Briefly Noted
It begins and ends with the death of her deeply pious mother, and the hurts (and caresses) of life are rendered indelibly: a childhood friend ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
3
Exhibit at Clark tells story of the making of "Whistler's Mother"
They had contrasting characters — Whistler, extravagant and pettish; Anna, pious and businesslike — but the two were devoted to each other. «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
4
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas A&M, Kansas and Iowa State Sought …
In a sign of how falsely pious universities can be when their rivals move up to a better conference and they get left behind, Kansas, a school ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
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The 4 Most Embarrassing Things Cecile Richards Said In Defense …
Unfortunately for them, the guy behind the videos appears to be a very nice and pious pro-life activist named David Daleiden. I have no idea ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
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WWII nurse among Lockport's celebrated citizens
There's the time she met Pope Pious XII in Rome. She was the only woman in the auditorium the day he spoke, she said. The Pontiff noticed ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
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Saul, Glyndebourne, Glynde, near Lewes, until Saturday, August 29 …
Despite the pious lyrics of narrator Abner (Benjamin Hulett), he is a ruff-wearing faerie fool character, clawing with elongated fingernails and ... «The Argus, Jul 15»
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Our Potemkin Life
In The Brothers Karamazov, the tortured intellectual Ivan challenges his pious brother Alyosha with the problem of theodicy. He focuses on the ... «First Things, Jul 15»
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Bobby Jindal's Opiate for the Masses
“Prayer is also a pious way to articulate their campaign strategies and beliefs about how government should run, since praying in this matter ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
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Independents' rise may signal chaos for our political system
That kind of pious attitude is some independents' biggest weakness. If they keep talking about power as a grubby little thing beneath them, ... «Herald, Jul 15»

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