All 5 Uses of
pious
in
Walden
- It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sunday's liberty for the rest.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *pious = self-righteous (believing oneself to be highly moral when it is not true)
- Cato says that the profits of agriculture are particularly pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and according to Varro the old Romans "called the same earth Mother and Ceres, and thought that they who cultivated it led a pious and useful life, and that they alone were left of the race of King Saturn."
Chpt 7 (definition 2)pious = highly moral
- Cato says that the profits of agriculture are particularly pious or just (maximeque pius quaestus), and according to Varro the old Romans "called the same earth Mother and Ceres, and thought that they who cultivated it led a pious and useful life, and that they alone were left of the race of King Saturn."
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- The words which express our faith and piety are not definite;
Chpt 18 (definition 2) *piety = religious or moral belief
- His singleness of purpose and resolution, and his elevated piety, endowed him, without his knowledge, with perennial youth.
Chpt 18 (definition 2)piety = devotion or faithfulness to purpose
Definitions:
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(1) (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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(2) (pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral