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pious
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Hail, arch-ascetic, pious, good, and kind!
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pious = religious or highly moral
...a pious king, Named Dasaratha, good and great, True to his word and fortunate.
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When thus the rite is mocked and stayed, And all my pious hopes delayed, Cast down in heart the spot I leave, And spent with fruitless labour grieve.
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pious = sincere, but highly unlikely
His son was good Nábhág, from youth Renowned for piety and truth.
Book 2

piety = highly moral behavior
Now Dasaratha's pious mind Meet wedlock for his sons designed; With priests and friends the king began To counsel and prepare his plan.†
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When glowing with celestial light The pious hermit was in sight, The king, whose mien his transport showed, The honoured gift for guests bestowed.†
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Thus in fair words with virtue fraught The pious glorious saint besought.†
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Constant and pious, blest by fate, The right thou must not violate.†
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Soon as the speech of Ráma, stirred By deep desire to know, he heard, The pious saint began to tell What paused the waters' roar and swell: "On high Kailása's distant hill There lies a noble lake Whose waters, born from Brahmá's will, The name of Mánas(158) take.†
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The pious king, with grief distressed, The noble hundred thus addressed: "With patience, daughters, bear your fate, Yours was a deed supremely great When with one mind you kept from shame The honour of your father's name.†
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To him absorbed in tasks austere The child of Urmilá drew near, Sweet Somadá, the heavenly maid And lent the saint her pious aid.†
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The saint replied: "The way I choose Is that which pious hermits use."†
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The saint in accents sweet and clear Thus told his tale for Ráma's ear, And thus anew the holy man A legend to the prince began: "There reigned a pious monarch o'er Ayodhyá in the days of yore: Sagar his name: no child had he, And children much he longed to see.†
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His honoured consort, fair of face, Sprang from Vidarbha's royal race, Kesini, famed from early youth For piety and love of truth.†
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Yet would the pious chieftain fain Oblations offer to the slain: But, needing water for the rite, He looked and there was none in sight His quick eye searching all around The uncle of his kinsmen found, King Garu?†
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He was a monarch pious-souled.†
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what evil have I done Against the lofty-minded one, That he, so pious, can expose The innocent whose love he knows?†
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The hermit with his tender eyes Looked on Trisanku's altered guise, And grieving at his ruined state Addressed him thus, compassionate: "Great King," the pious hermit said, "What cause thy steps has hither led, Ayodhyá's mighty Sovereign, whom A curse has plagued with outcast's doom?"†
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And Visvámitra, pious-souled, Among the Bráhman saints enrolled, On reverend Vasish?†
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Then spoke the hermit pious-souled: "Ráma, dear son, the bow behold."†
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His son was Nandivardhan, dear For pious heart and worth sincere.†
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aketu, blest With pious will and holy breast.†
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Now, pious Ráma, 'tis thy part To shoot afar that glorious dart: I, when the fatal shaft is shot, Will seek that hill and tarry not.†
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And can thy righteous soul endure That Ráma glorious, pious, pure, Should to the distant wilds be sent For fourteen years of banishment?†
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Then rose the happy thought to cheer The bosom of the charioteer, "The king, I ween, of pious mind, The consecration has designed."†
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The pious king, thy father, see True to his promise made to thee: That truth thy sire this day will show, And regent's power on thee bestow.†
Book 2
Thy preparations now forgo, And lock within thy breast thy woe, Nor be my pious wish withstood To go an exile to the wood.†
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O pious soul, if thou decline The empire which is justly thine, Lest, while the king distracted lies, Disorder in the state should rise, I,—or no mansion may I find In worlds to hero souls assigned,— The guardian of thy realm will be, As the sea-bank protects the sea.†
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For, when he looked on her, no more Could his heart hide the load it bore, Nor could the pious chief control The paleness o'er his cheek that stole.†
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He sought to soothe her grief, to dry The torrent from each brimming eye, And then, her firm resolve to shake, These words the pious hero spake: "O daughter of a noble line, Whose steps from virtue ne'er decline, Remain, thy duties here pursue, As my fond heart would have thee do.†
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To grace the altar must be brought The gift of flowers his hands have sought— The debt each pious hermit owes: The wood, my love, is full of woes.†
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Yes, we will leave each well-loved spot, The field, the garden, and the cot, And, sharers of his weal and woe, Behind the pious Ráma go.†
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And when my sire has passed away, Most happy in their lot are they, Allowed, with every pious care, Part in his funeral rites to bear.†
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So Ráma, with his brother bold, A pious anchorite enrolled, Obeyed the vow which hermits take, And to his friend, King Guha, spake: "May people, treasure, army share, And fenced forts, thy constant care: Attend to all: supremely hard The sovereign's task, to watch and guard."†
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No longer, in religious fear, Do they who pious vows revere, Bring dainty cates and wreaths of flowers As offerings to the heavenly powers.†
Book 2
When Bharat pious, pure, and true, Heard the sad words which pierced him through, Grieved for the sire he loved so well Prostrate upon the ground he fell: Down fell the strong-armed hero, high Tossing his arms, and a sad cry, "Ah, woe is me, unhappy, slain!"†
Book 2
Thus spoke the pious prince: and he Descended from the lofty tree, And reverent hand to hand applied, Stood humbly by his brother's side.†
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This day, for lowly toil unfit, His pious task thy son should quit.†
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With pious care, each solemn day, Will men their funeral offerings pay: See, how the useful food they waste: He who is dead no more can taste.†
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(398) Then when the pious chief had seen Lodged in her home each widowed queen, Still with his burning grief oppressed His holy guides he thus addressed: "I go to Nandigrám: adieu, This day, my lords to all of you: I go, my load of grief to bear, Reft of the son of Raghu, there†
Book 2
When Ráma takes again this pair Of sandals kept with pious care, And here his glorious reign begins, I shall be cleansed from all my sins, When the glad people's voices ring With welcome to the new-made king, Joy will be mine four-fold as great As if supreme I ruled the state.†
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There honoured by each pious sage Who dwelt within the hermitage, Beside his darling well content That sacred night the hero spent.†
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With pious care He turned him to his evening prayer, Performed each customary rite, And sought his lodging for the night, With Sítá and his brother laid Beneath the grove's delightful shade, First good Sutíksh?†
Book 3
Now pious men to God and shade Offer young corn's fresh sprouted blade, And purge away their sins with rice Bestowed in humble sacrifice.†
Book 3
To meet the sons of Raghu came, With hands upraised, the pious dame, And bending low with reverence meet Welcomed them both and pressed their feet.†
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When Ráma and his brother heard The pious prayer the dame preferred, Filled full of transport and amazed They marvelled as her words they praised.†
Book 3
I, Hanumán, of Vánar race, Sent by the king have sought this place, For he, the pious, just, and true, In friendly league would join with you.†
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He spoke, and Ráma, just and brave, Whose pious soul to virtue clave, Smiled as in conscious might he eyed The king of Vánars, and replied: "Best fruit of friendship is the deed That helps the friend in hour of need; And this mine arm in death shall lay Thy robber ere the close of day.†
Book 4
But how, O pious lady, say, May we thy gracious boon repay?†
Book 4
s pious heart revered, Lies here,—for none may strive with Fate, A captive, sad and desolate.†
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(1) (pious as in: a good, pious woman)
religious or highly moral
(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)
(3) (pious as in: cling to the pious hope)
(describing a hope or wish as) sincere, but highly unlikely
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, piety can refer to devotion or faithfulness as Proust used it in the book, Swann's Way:

"...but when, as had befallen me, such an anguish possesses one's soul before Love has yet entered into one's life, then it must drift, awaiting Love's coming, vague and free, without precise attachment, at the disposal of one sentiment to-day, of another to-morrow, of filial piety or affection for a comrade."

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