All 3 Uses of
pious
in
Angela's Ashes
- People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.
Chpt 1pious = highly religious and moral
- The rain drove us into the church.... Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
Chpt 1 *piety = religious belief
- We will have the Gifts of the Holy Ghost: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, the Fear of the Lord.
Chpt 8piety = highly religious and moral behavior
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral