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Meanings of piousness in English

Catalan
pietat
Spanish
piedad

Righteousness by virtue of being pious.

      pietat
      Usage of piousness in English
      1
      But the hard piousness of Cynthy Ann's face had never attracted her sympathy.
      The End of the World: A Love Story
      2
      Certainly not parting company with men of God who wielded their piousness like a weapon.
      The irish warrior
      3
      Five hundred miles in four days nettled him far more than the piousness of the driver.
      The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
      4
      There is an odd piousness that infects the public and the media during times of national crisis.
      The Irish Times
      5
      It plods on: doing business and helping the country to survive the double scourges of transition and Western piousness and patronizing.
      Financial Crime and Corruption
      6
      Early in life, while yet a recognized baseball authority, Mr. Sunday discovered "pay dirt" in what Col. Mulberry Sellers called "piousness."
      Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
      7
      Such eager devotion to authenticity, says Ethan, was a mark of that specific scene … and the seriousness and piousness that went with it.
      The Guardian
      Translations for piousness
      Catalan
      pietat
      Spanish
      piedad
      Piousness through the time