All 19 Uses
pious
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Edited)
- Stephen knelt at his side respecting, though he did not share, his piety.
Chpt 2piety = religious belief
- He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety.
Chpt 2piety = loyalty (moral behavior)
- God help us! he said piously, to think of the men of those times, Stephen, Hely Hutchinson and Flood and Henry Grattan and Charles Kendal Bushe, and the noblemen we have now, leaders of the Irish people at home and abroad.
Chpt 2piously = in a religious manner
- Their dull piety and the sickly smell of the cheap hair-oil with which they had anointed their heads repelled him from the altar they prayed at.
Chpt 3piety = religious belief
- From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money for the purchase of unlawful pleasures, envy of those whose vices he could not reach to and calumnious murmuring against the pious, gluttonous enjoyment of food, the dull glowering anger amid which he brooded upon his longing, the swamp of spiritual and bodily sloth in which his whole being had sunk.
Chpt 3pious = people who are highly moral or religious
- I need hardly remind you that during the days of the retreat all boys are expected to preserve a quiet and pious demeanour and to shun all loud unseemly pleasure.
Chpt 3pious = moral or religious
- But, above and beyond all, let this retreat be one to which you can look back in after years when maybe you are far from this college and among very different surroundings, to which you can look back with joy and thankfulness and give thanks to God for having granted you this occasion of laying the first foundation of a pious honourable zealous christian life.
Chpt 3pious = highly religious and moral
- Help me by your pious attention, by your own devotion, by your outward demeanour.
Chpt 3pious = highly moral or religious
- The poor sinner holds out his arms to those who were dear to him in this earthly world, to those whose simple piety perhaps he made a mock of, to those who counselled him and tried to lead him on the right path, to a kind brother, to a loving sister, to the mother and father who loved him so dearly.
Chpt 3piety = religious belief
- For the pious and believing catholic, for the just man, death is no cause of terror.
Chpt 3pious = highly moral or religious
- He it is and he alone, the pious and believing christian, who can say in his heart: O grave, where is thy victory?
Chpt 3
- Why did you turn aside from your pious practices and good works?
Chpt 3 *pious = highly religious
- Bearded workmen with pious faces were guiding a canopy out through a side door, the sacristan aiding them with quiet gestures and words.
Chpt 3pious = religious
- The raw morning air whetted his resolute piety; and often as he knelt among the few worshippers at the side-altar, following with his interleaved prayer-book the murmur of the priest, he glanced up for an instant towards the vested figure standing in the gloom between the two candles, which were the old and the new testaments, and imagined that he was kneeling at mass in the catacombs.
Chpt 4piety = religious belief
- Meek and abased by this consciousness of the one eternal omnipresent perfect reality his soul took up again her burden of pieties, masses and prayers and sacraments and mortifications, and only then for the first time since he had brooded on the great mystery of love did he feel within him a warm movement like that of some newly born life or virtue of the soul itself.
Chpt 4pieties = highly religious and moral actions
- It surprised him however to find that at the end of his course of intricate piety and self-restraint he was so easily at the mercy of childish and unworthy imperfections.
Chpt 4piety = religious behavior
- Such a boy is marked off from his companions by his piety, by the good example he shows to others.
Chpt 4piety = highly religious and moral behavior
- Some instinct, waking at these memories, stronger than education or piety, quickened within him at every near approach to that life, an instinct subtle and hostile, and armed him against acquiescence.
Chpt 4piety = religious belief
- Their piety would be like their names, like their faces, like their clothes, and it was idle for him to tell himself that their humble and contrite hearts, it might be, paid a far richer tribute of devotion than his had ever been, a gift tenfold more acceptable than his elaborate adoration.
Chpt 4piety = religious morality
Definitions:
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(1)
(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral
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(2)
(pious as in: a pious hypocrite) self-righteous (acting as though one is, or believing one is highly moral when it is not true)
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(3)
(pious as in: cling to the pious hope) (describing a hope or wish as) sincere, but highly unlikely
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, piety can refer to devotion or faithfulness as Proust used it in the book, Swann's Way:
"...but when, as had befallen me, such an anguish possesses one's soul before Love has yet entered into one's life, then it must drift, awaiting Love's coming, vague and free, without precise attachment, at the disposal of one sentiment to-day, of another to-morrow, of filial piety or affection for a comrade."