Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity.
Believing in and showing reverence for God or a deity.
1 Yes, we went to mass, although the motive was far from pious .
2 The first emotion was surprise; the second, awe; the third, pious fervour.
3 Why did you turn aside from your pious practices and good works?
4 Was the Family's vision simply a pious veneer on business as usual?
5 In the age of discipline, watercooler gossip has taken a pious turn.
6 The disciples stood around the saint in grotesque attitudes of pious attention.
7 Every one reserves his pious horror for the citizens in the amphitheatre.
8 Neither can you prevent the expulsion of the pious of the church.
9 Andrew detected a lack of altruism in the pious note of praise.
10 And the pious Agaric turned over his great designs in his mind.
11 The boy that looked the sickest was regarded as the most pious .
12 The family was very pious ; they were, like all the Lapps, Lutherans.
13 The state of Europe in that pious epoch need not be described.
14 To the pious it took on the alluring guise of a Crusade.
15 He'd been forced to put up with her pious bleatings for years.
16 The sight of God is the pious emotion of the inner man.
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