Definition of Pious

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Definition of Pious
	Pious Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds. Related Definitions: As, By, Devout, Dutiful, Exhibiting, Godly, Mistaken, Of, Or, Pertaining, Piety, Pious, Practiced, Pretext, Prompted, Religion, Religious, Reverential, The, To, Under

Pious Quotations

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
Sigmund Freud

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
Norman Borlaug

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
Wole Soyinka

Pious Translations

pious in Afrikaans is godsdienstig
pious in Dutch is godvrezend, godsdienstig, devoot
pious in Finnish is hurskas
pious in French is pieux
pious in German is fromm
pious in Italian is pio
pious in Latin is pia pium
pious in Swedish is from

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