All 13 Uses of
pious
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- There were, indeed, here and there, some inscriptions on the walls, but they were pure sentences of learning and piety, extracted from good authors.†
Chpt 1.5.1piety = religious or highly moral belief/behavior OR (more rarely) devotion or faithfulness
- The piety of that age, not very subtle nor much given to reasoning, did not see so many facets in an act of religion.†
Chpt 1.6.2
- The solemn lines of that architecture, ... the serene and pious thoughts which emanated, so to speak, from all the pores of that stone, acted upon her without her being aware of it.
Chpt 2.9.4 *pious = holy (religious)
- And comparing himself to the pilot who suffers shipwreck by night, "~Salve~," he added piously, "~salve, maris stella~!"†
Chpt 1.2.6
- Let us return to the façade of Notre-Dame, as it still appears to us, when we go piously to admire the grave and puissant cathedral, which inspires terror, so its chronicles assert: ~quoe mole sua terrorem incutit spectantibus~.†
Chpt 1.3.1
- The big brother counted upon a pious, docile, learned, and honorable pupil.†
Chpt 1.4.5
- Thus the archdeacon, in spite of the excessive austerity of his life, was in bad odor among all pious souls; and there was no devout nose so inexperienced that it could not smell him out to be a magician.†
Chpt 1.4.5
- The poor of her day had made her a fine funeral, with tears and benedictions; but, to their great regret, the pious maid had not been canonized, for lack of influence.†
Chpt 1.6.2
- In accordance with the fashion of the epoch, a Latin inscription on the wall indicated to the learned passer-by the pious purpose of this cell.†
Chpt 1.6.2
- As she could not have a lover, she turned wholly towards a desire for a child, and as she had not ceased to be pious, she made her constant prayer to the good God for it.†
Chpt 1.6.3
- Lord my God, I am only a vile sinner; but my daughter made me pious.†
Chpt 2.8.5
- You know, madame, that many very pious princes have overstepped the privileges of the churches for the glory of God and the necessities of the State.†
Chpt 2.10.5
- Under this gentle and pious sire, the gallows crack with the hung, the blocks rot with blood, the prisons burst like over full bellies.†
Chpt 2.11.1
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