Righteousness by virtue of being pious.
1 But the hard piousness of Cynthy Ann's face had never attracted her sympathy.
2 Certainly not parting company with men of God who wielded their piousness like a weapon.
3 Five hundred miles in four days nettled him far more than the piousness of the driver.
4 There is an odd piousness that infects the public and the media during times of national crisis.
5 It plods on: doing business and helping the country to survive the double scourges of transition and Western piousness and patronizing.
6 Early in life, while yet a recognized baseball authority, Mr. Sunday discovered "pay dirt" in what Col. Mulberry Sellers called " piousness . "
7 Such eager devotion to authenticity, says Ethan, was a mark of that specific scene … and the seriousness and piousness that went with it.
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