All 5 Uses of
pious
in
Treasure Island
- "Now, for instance, you wouldn't think I had had a pious mother—to look at me?" he asked.
Chpt 15pious = highly religious and moral
- "Ah, well," said he, "but I had—remarkable pious."
Chpt 15
- And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another.
Chpt 15
- That's what it begun with, but it went further'n that; and so my mother told me, and predicked the whole, she did, the pious woman!
Chpt 15
- I've thought it all out in this here lonely island, and I'm back on piety. ... I'm bound I'll be good, and I see the way to.
Chpt 15 *piety = highly moral behavior
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral