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Meanings of piousness in English

Catalan
pietat
Spanish
piedad

Righteousness by virtue of being pious.

pietat
Synonyms
Examples for "piety"
Examples for "piety"
1
The piety of such men confirmed in Lanier a natural religious fervor.
Sidney Lanier
2
In his case it had nothing to do with piety, absolutely not.
Melnitz
3
He said he had never met a young woman of more piety.
The red queen
4
To rebel was sin; to doubt was heresy; to submit was piety.
Christianity and Progress
5
Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
The Irish Times
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