Both Uses of
pious
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- I have never felt such pity for any one in this wide world as I felt for that half-witted creature, and it began to come over me that the brig Covenant (for all her pious name) was little better than a hell upon the seas.
Chpt 5pious = religious
- ...a number of hymns and pious books...
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral