The Only Use of
impious
in
Great Expectations
- The imaginary student pursued by the misshapen creature he had impiously made, was not more wretched than I, pursued by the creature who had made me, and recoiling from him with a stronger repulsion, the more he admired me and the fonder he was of me.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(impious) not pious; i.e., lacking reverence for a god