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piety

[pahy-i-tee] / ˈpaɪ ɪ ti /


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So much so that some state media have tried to steer the discussion online towards traditionals concepts of filial piety, urging young people to be more understanding of their parents.

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

“Go to his master. Hubert’s wisdom and piety are famous across Christendom. I’m bringing some books to him anyway. Come with me, and we’ll tell him all about the crimes of the wicked Michelangelo.”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

“Punch” could easily have become a bog of pieties and earnest, uplifting lessons about the necessity of forgiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 2, 2025

In a resonant pre-internet illustration of this thesis, the mayor’s infuriating hypocrisy, cloaked in communal concern and democratic pieties, drives Dr. Stockmann, a man of reason, into an irrational frenzy.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2024

Bakewell describes how he “trashes all the humanistic pieties on the subject of reading,” defending, for example, the right to unapologetically toss a dull book aside.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 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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