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What does piety mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) reverence and devotion to God
  2. (uncountable) similar reverence to one's parents and family
  3. (countable) a devout act or thought
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Elsewhere the dialogue recovers and proves capable of poking a little borax at the rigid principles and habits of Scotch piety.
Rebecca Hall confirms her star status by endowing Maria with a mixture of scrubbed piety, intellectual fever and human rattiness.
Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.
In contrast to the secular West, a deep piety permeates everyday village life, even though it is often highly ritualised.
In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives.
You land up wallowing in self piety and gloat over the fact that you have been used and hurt.

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