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What does impiety mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state of being impious.
  2. (countable) An impious act.
  3. (uncountable) The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.
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We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist.
Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth.
Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good.
They were sanctioned by the authority of heaven, and it was deemed impiety to alter them.
Magic, impiety, enchantments, are often the effects of a diseased imagination.

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