Both Uses of
pious
in
The House of Mirth
- It was bitter enough for Lily to ask a favour of Grace Stepney, but the alternative was bitterer still; and one morning she presented herself at Mrs. Peniston's, where Grace, for the facilitation of her pious task, had taken up a provisional abode.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer to her than another: there was no centre of early pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral