Both Uses of
pious
in
Hard Times
- If the members of a religious persuasion built a chapel there — as the members of eighteen religious persuasions had done — they made it a pious warehouse of red brick, with sometimes (but this is only in highly ornamental examples) a bell in a birdcage on the top of it.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- As Coketown cast ashes not only on its own head but on the neighbourhood's too — after the manner of those pious persons who do penance for their own sins by putting other people into sackcloth — it was customary for those who now and then thirsted for a draught of pure air, which is not absolutely the most wicked among the vanities of life, to get a few miles away by the railroad, and then begin their walk, or their lounge in the fields.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
-
(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral