All 5 Uses of
pious
in
Man And Superman
- Moliere's Don Juan casts back to the original in point of impenitence; but in piety he falls off greatly.
Chpt Ded.piety = religion or morality
- Here you have freedom in love and in morality mocking exquisitely at slavery to them, and interesting you, attracting you, tempting you, inexplicably forcing you to range the hero with his enemy the statue on a transcendant plane, leaving the prudish daughter and her priggish lover on a crockery shelf below to live piously ever after.
Chpt Ded.piously = in a highly religious or moral manner
- My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in, occasionally leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities.
Chpt 1 *pious = highly moral or religious
- Then I should have come here; and you would have had a statue and a reputation for piety to live up to.
Chpt 3piety = highly moral or religious behavior
- The day is coming when great nations will find their numbers dwindling from census to census; when the six roomed villa will rise in price above the family mansion; when the viciously reckless poor and the stupidly pious rich will delay the extinction of the race only by degrading it; whilst the boldly prudent, the thriftily selfish and ambitious, the imaginative and poetic, the lovers of money and solid comfort, the worshippers of success, art, and of love, will all oppose to theā¦
Chpt 3pious = religious
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral