All 3 Uses of
pious
in
A Hope in the Unseen
- In the sixteen and a half years since Cedric's birth, Barbara Jennings has been on a path of sacrifice and piety that has taken her far from the light-hearted haughtiness of her earlier self-the woman with a blonde wig, leather miniskirt, white knee-high boots, and a taste for malt liquor.
Chpt 1piety = highly religious and moral behavior
- She's been killing herself, her lifeblood channeled through scriptural pieties and long-shot hopes for Cedric's future, leaving her own urges untended and volatile.
Chpt 2pieties = highly religious and moral actions
- She gazes into the wide center section of the church, passing over the familiar faces of women and a few men. No one from here-no one from this place of public piety and sacrifice-seems suitable.
Chpt 12 *piety = highly religious and moral behavior
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