Both Uses of
pious
in
Madame Bovary
- Instead of attending to mass, she looked at the pious vignettes with their azure borders in her book, and she loved the sick lamb, the sacred heart pierced with sharp arrows, or the poor Jesus sinking beneath the cross he carries.
Chpt 1.6pious = religious
- ...everything that was then the fashion in the pious book trade.
Chpt 2.14 *
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral