Definition of piety

"piety" in the noun sense

1. piety, piousness

righteousness by virtue of being pious

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Quotations for piety

Much praying but no piety. [ Proverb ]

Be happy, but be so by piety. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Piety enjoins no man to be dull. [ South ]

Love is the piety of the affections. [ Theodore Parker ]

Music lends to piety wings to heaven. [ B. Gilpin ]

Hypocritical piety is double iniquity. [ Proverb ]

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace. [ Richardson ]

Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! [ Virgil ]

Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. [ Sir John Denham ]

There is no piety in keeping an unjust promise. [ Proverb ]

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. [ Fletcher ]

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. [ Saadi ]

Friendship, love, and piety, should be treated in private. [ Novalis ]

Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp. [ Lucan ]

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world. [ Emerson ]

Earth hath nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. [ Luther ]

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all in piety. [ Johnson ]

Religion without piety hath done more mischief in the world than all other things put together. [ Proverb ]

I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. [ Dryden ]

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [ Seneca ]

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. [ Lavater ]

Without settled principle and practical virtue, life is a desert; without Christian piety, the contemplation of the grave is terrible. [ Sir William Knighton ]

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. [ Johnson ]

There are treasures laid up in the heart - treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death, when he leaves this world. [ Buddhist Scriptures ]

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. [ Bacon ]

The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

piety in Scrabble®

The word piety is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters piety:

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piety in Words With Friends™

The word piety is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters piety:

PIETY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In piety

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Words within the letters of piety

2 letter words in piety (4 words)

3 letter words in piety (8 words)

4 letter words in piety (4 words)

5 letter words in piety (1 word)

piety + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence piety

Words that start with piety (1 word)

Words with piety in them (1 word)

Words that end with piety (2 words)

Word Growth involving piety

Shorter words in piety

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Longer words containing piety

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