All 8 Uses of
pious
in
The Three Musketeers
- He was a Berrichon, thirty-five or forty years old, mild, peaceable, sleek, employing the leisure his master left him in the perusal of pious works, providing rigorously for two a dinner of few dishes, but excellent.
Chpt 7.pious = religious
- He resolved, then, to defend the door bravely; and as, betrayed by the mistress of the inn, he could not say that Aramis was absent, he endeavored to prove to the newcomer that it would be the height of indiscretion to disturb his master in his pious conference, which had commenced with the morning and would not, as Bazin said, terminate before night.
Chpt 26.
- Bazin, who had been standing listening to all this controversy with a pious jubilation, sprang toward them, took the breviary of the curate and the missal of the Jesuit, and walked respectfully before them to clear their way.
Chpt 26.
- Yesterday I undertook to employ that cord which you see hanging against the wall, but pain prevented my continuing the pious exercise.
Chpt 27.pious = faithful
- They came nobody knew whence; but when seeing her so lovely and her brother so pious, nobody thought of asking whence they came.
Chpt 27.pious = religious
- "They say," said Aramis, resuming his pious reading, "that the dyke which the cardinal is making drives them all out into the open sea."
Chpt 46.
- "So," cried Milady, as if she could not resist giving utterance to a holy indignation, "you, a pious man, you who are called a just man, you ask but one thing—and that is that you may not be inculpated, annoyed, by my death!"
Chpt 55.pious = highly religious and moral
- ...we abandon to your pious care the body of that unfortunate woman.
Chpt 63. *pious = highly religious
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