| True womanhood emphasized the qualities of piety, purity, maternity, submissiveness, virtue, and domesticity. |
| Satan, a sceptical archangel, offers an experiment to test whether Job's piety is really sincere or predicated on his God-given wealth. |
| In contrast to the secular West, a deep piety permeates everyday village life, even though it is often highly ritualised. |
| Elsewhere the dialogue recovers and proves capable of poking a little borax at the rigid principles and habits of Scotch piety. |
| Most religious painting of the time depicted the Holy family or the saints in a contrived, idealised way, full of piety and grace. |
| They edited her writings and touched up her image to fit the ripely emotional world of 19 th-century piety. |
