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pious
/ˈpaɪəs/
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What does pious mean?
adjective
- Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
- Relating to religion or religious works.
- Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpaɪəs/
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Master Thomas was one of the many pious slaveholders who hold slaves for the very charitable purpose of taking care of them.
In the case of my misguided aunt, the form which pious perseverance was next to take revealed itself to me plainly enough.
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A lesser crime than this is the sacrifice of Jephthah or Agamemnon, where a pious daughter is slain by a father's sword.
Times came in the course of the ages when men were pious enough not to have to live in dread of punishment.
Says our pious editor, for the government to take property without full compensation "would be contrary to the whole spirit of America."