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piety

[pahy-i-tee] / ˈpaɪ ɪ ti /


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The discussions range from people frustrated with controlling parents, to those exhausted from the pressure to excel academically or heed advice in the name of "filial piety".

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

You’ve seen a couple hundred of them by the time you hit second or third grade, so you become familiar with the muted ethereal glow, the heavenly gaze and the look of piety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Iskander’s David is a young man whose youthful piety and heroism make him a sympathetic figure, notwithstanding the bag of cold cuts.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

The pope "wanted to see for himself what is happening in Monaco, where this movement of renewal is based on an embraced faith, and on an inclusive popular piety and devotion," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

Pietism laid great store by helping congregations find God themselves, through personal acquaintance and knowledge of the scriptures, through humility, non-confrontation and piety, through an ethos of hard work, and through education.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

She is friends with Sharon, a black social worker who has little patience for the pieties of antiracist allyship or the bold talk of young activists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Much of the public wanted a different take on war - and one that challenged solemn pieties at the heart of Official Remembrance.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Public service wasn’t about party pieties, Jim said, but rather “finding a solution to a problem.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025

She has made a living as a yoga teacher, though she doesn’t really like teaching and has a penchant for skewering the pieties of her profession in Instagram parodies filmed by her husband.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

The Damphair might disapprove, but Aeron and his pieties were far away.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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