All 13 Uses of
pious
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Buck Mulligan made way for him to scramble past and, glancing at Haines and Stephen, crossed himself piously with his thumbnail at brow and lips and breastbone.
Chpt 1piously = religiously
- Glorious, pious and immortal memory.†
Chpt 2
- Pious fraud but quite right: otherwise they'd have one old booser worse than another coming along, cadging for a drink.†
Chpt 5
- --Praises be to God! Martin Cunningham said piously.
Chpt 6piously = religiously
- ...and knelt his right knee upon it. He fitted his black hat gently on his left knee and, holding its brim, bent over piously.
Chpt 6
- —Two Dublin vestals, Stephen said, elderly and pious, have lived fifty and fiftythree years in Fumbally's lane.†
Chpt 7
- Bloodless pious face like a fellow going in to be a priest.†
Chpt 8
- Buck Mulligan, his pious eyes upturned, prayed:
Chpt 9 *pious = religious
- And careworn hearts were there and toilers for their daily bread and many who had erred and wandered, their eyes wet with contrition but for all that bright with hope for the reverend father Father Hughes had told them what the great saint Bernard said in his famous prayer of Mary, the most pious Virgin's intercessory power that it was not recorded in any age that those who implored her powerful protection were ever abandoned by her.†
Chpt 13
- Yes, Pious had told him of that land and Chaste had pointed him to the way but the reason was that in the way he fell in with a certain whore of an eyepleasing exterior whose name, she said, is Bird-in-the-Hand and she beguiled him wrongways from the true path by her flatteries that she said to him as, Ho, you pretty man, turn aside hither and I will show you a brave place, and she lay at him so flatteringly that she had him in her grot which is named Two-in-the-Bush or, by some…†
Chpt 14
- He says this, a censor of morals, a very pelican in his piety, who did not scruple, oblivious of the ties of nature, to attempt illicit intercourse with a female domestic drawn from the lowest strata of society!†
Chpt 14
- He had doubled the cape a few odd times and weathered a monsoon, a kind of wind, in the China seas and through all those perils of the deep there was one thing, he declared, stood to him or words to that effect, a pious medal he had that saved him.†
Chpt 16
- …chat in her about politics and earthquakes and the end of the world let us have a bit of fun first God help the world if all the women were her sort down on bathingsuits and lownecks of course nobody wanted her to wear them I suppose she was pious because no man would look at her twice I hope Ill never be like her a wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces but she was a welleducated woman certainly and her gabby talk about Mr Riordan here and Mr Riordan there I suppose he was glad…†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral