Both Uses of
pious
in
Bleak House
- Mr. Turveydrop said this in quite a pious manner, and it seemed to do his son good, who, in parting from him, was so pleased with him, so dutiful to him, and so proud of him that I almost felt as if it were an unkindness to the younger man not to be able to believe implicitly in the elder.†
Chpt 13-15
- My little woman is at present in— not to put too fine a point on it—in a pious state, or in what she considers such, and attends the Evening Exertions (which is the name they go by) of a reverend party of the name of Chadband.†
Chpt 22-24 *
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral