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Definition: Pious |
PiousAdjective1. Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings". 2. Devoutly religious; "a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Pious \Pi"ous\, adjective. [Latin expression pius: compare to the French expression pieux.]. (references) |
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Literature | Pious (2 syl.). The Romans called a man who revered his father pius; hence Antoninus was called pius, because he requested that his adopted father (Hadrian) might be ranked among the gods. AEneas was called pius because he rescued his father from the burning city of Troy. The Italian word piet (q.v.) has a similar meaning. The Pious. Ernst I., founder of the House of Gotha. (1601-1674.) Robert, son of Hugues Capet, (971, 996-1031.) Eric IX. of Sweden. (*, 1155-1161.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Piety is a desire and willingness to perform religious duties. It is a traditional virtue because religion is the only known way to win the favor or forgiveness of deities, that is, to "propitiate" them. In this way, a pious man will do well in life.See also: Virtue
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Piety."
Synonyms: PiousSynonyms: devout (adj), god-fearing (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: impious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impiety | Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws. |
Piety | Verb: be pious; Adjective: have faith; Noun: believe, receive Christ; revere; be converted; |
Adjective: pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly-minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic; saintly, saint-like; seraphic, sacred, solemn. | |
Untruth | Irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation; (concealment). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pious |
| English words defined with "pious": Canting ♦ Deodand, devoutly ♦ Fore end, Franciscan Brothers ♦ Heavenlyminded, holier-than-thou ♦ pharisaic, pharisaical, pietistic, pietistical, piety, piously, piousness ♦ Religionary ♦ sanctimonious, self-righteous ♦ The devout, Third order ♦ uncharitable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pious": Abbot, Anah ♦ Carmelite, Christian ♦ Devil Sick would be a Monk, Doctor Syntax, Dorcas ♦ Epitaph ♦ Faces, FOREORDINATION ♦ Gama, Gudrun ♦ Hades, HALF, Halo, Hock-day ♦ INFERIAE ♦ Jakeh ♦ King ♦ lettuce ♦ Nose Literature ♦ ostrich ♦ Piarists, Pieta' ♦ righteousness ♦ Sabbath, Scarification, soul, Susanna ♦ Zelotes. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pious": Religion. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Poor Peter Pious (1917) | |
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Cudworth | Sanctified afflictions are like so many artificers working on a pious man's crown to make it more bright and massive. |
Henri Frederic Amiel | In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. |
Martin Luther | What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them. |
Moliere | Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man. |
Samuel Johnson | A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety. |
The Talmud | Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture declares him twice-blessed. |
William M. Evarts | The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The same mournful, pious, agonising feeling now filled his heart |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Help me by your pious attention, by your own devotion, by your outward demeanour |
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Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | Security services' interest in Khasanov apparently stems from the fact that many in his family are pious Muslims. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. |
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| "Pious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.77% of the time. "Pious" is used about 369 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.77% | 346 | 15,378 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.69% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (common) | 0.54% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 369 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "pious". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pia | Male | English | To be pious and dutiful |
| Pia | Male | Italian | To be pious and dutiful |
| Pia | Male | Late Roman | To be pious and dutiful |
| Pius | Male | Late Roman | To be pious and dutiful |
| Pia | Male | Polish | To be pious and dutiful |
| Pia | Male | Scandinavian | To be pious and dutiful |
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Expressions using "pious": a pious hope ♦ be pious ♦ Louis the Pious ♦ overly pious ♦ pious deed ♦ pious effort ♦ pious fraud ♦ pious hope ♦ pious platitude ♦ pious wish. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "pious": it-pious. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pious | 6 |
louis pious | 4 |
pious st x | 3 |
augustus pious | 3 |
define pious | 2 |
certainly jew many observant pious | 2 |
pious st | 2 |
pious society st x | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | godsdienstig (religious). (various references) | |
Albanian | i stërfalë, fetar (pi, religious, spiritual), fanatik (bigot, bigoted, devotee, fanatic, fanatical, freak, sectarian, zealot), besimtar (believer, devotee, god fearing, godly, religioner, religious, worshipper). (various references) | |
Arabic | متظاهر بالتقوى (devout), متدين (devout, god fearing, godly, practising, religious, ultra orthodox), ورع (devout, god fearing, godliness, holy, prayerful, religious, religiousness, righteous, righteousness, saintly, sanctity), غير حقيقي (ostensible, unreal), تقي (devout, godliness, godly, holy, immaculate, mystic, prayerful, religious), جدير بالثناء (commendable, laudable). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | религиозен (religious, spiritual), набожен (devotional, devout, godly, pi, prayerful, religious), лицемерно набожен (sanctified, sanctimonious), благочестив (christian, devotional, devout), праведен (innocent, just, righteous, simon-pure), похвален (commendable, commended, complimentary, creditable, deserving, laudable, meritorious, praised, praiseworthy), почтителен (deferent, deferential, honorific, regardful, respectful). (various references) | |
Chinese | "诚 (Devout, Worshipful). (various references) | |
Czech | pobožný, zbožný (devout, holy, prayerful), oddaný (affectionate, attached, devoted, dutiful, great, intent, obedient, stalwart). (various references) | |
Dutch | godvrezend, godsdienstig (religious), devoot. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pia. (various references) | |
Faeroese | gudsóttandi. (various references) | |
Farsi | پارسا (Devotee, Votary), پرهیزگار, متقی , وارسته (Light), زاهد (Ascetic, Devotee, Votary), دیندار (Devout, Religious). (various references) | |
Finnish | hurskas (devotee, devout). (various references) | |
French | pieux (piles). (various references) | |
Frisian | from. (various references) | |
German | fromm (calm, devout, devoutly, docile, god fearing, godly, meek, piously, quiet, religious, religiously, sanctimonious, sanctimoniously, upright). (various references) | |
Greek | φιλόθεοσ (loving god), ευσεβήσ (devout, prayerful), ευσεβής (devout), θεοσεβήσ (devout, godly). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאמין (believer, devout, religious), ירא שמים (god fearing, godly, reverent), א"וק (devout, godly, observant, orthodox, religious), חר"י (orthodox, religious), חר" (afraid, anxious, fearful, solicitous), "תי (devout, orthodox, religious), צ"יק (acquitted, innocent, just, right, righteous, upright), צ"קן (just, prig, righteous). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jámbor (arcadian, biddable, devotional, godly, guileless, holy, religious, saintly), vallásos (devotional, godly, religious), kegyes (benignant, gracious, large, lenient, propitious), istenfélő (god-fearing, godly, religious). (various references) | |
Indonesian | saleh (devotional, religious, virtuous), imani (religious), alim (devout, learned). (various references) | |
Italian | pio (devout, religious). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 敬" (devout, modest). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けいけ" (devout, experience, modest). (various references) | |
Korean | 경건한 (Devout). (various references) | |
Manx | mie (fair, favourable, good, goodly, goodness, moral, nice, ready, virtue, virtuous). (various references) | |
Papiamen | religioso (religious), deboto. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iouspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | religioso (believer, devotional, devout, divine, godly, prayerful, religioner, religious), pio (bird call, bump, cheep, peep, pi, whistle), piedoso (believer, devotional, devout, godly, holy, merciful, pi, prayerful, sainted). (various references) | |
Romanian | pios (devout, godly, holy, piously, saintly), virtuos (chaste, moral, nice, virtuoso, virtuous), religios (devotional, religious), evlavios (bigoted, devotional, godlike, godly), cucernic (devout, devoutly, godlike, godly), bisericos (godly, religious). (various references) | |
Russian | набожный (devotional, devout, godly, pi, prayerful), благочестивый (devotional, godly). (various references) | |
Scottish | diadhaidh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pobožan (devout, pi, prayerful, religious, saintlike, sanctimonious). (various references) | |
Spanish | beato (blessed, blest, churchy, goodygoody, pietistic, sanctimonious). (various references) | |
Sranan | santafasi, santa (holy, holy man, sacred, saint), fron, fromu. (various references) | |
Swedish | gudlig (godly, goody goody, holy), from (devotional, devour, devout, gentle, good tempered, prayerful, quiet, religious). (various references) | |
Turkish | saygılı (considerate, courteous, deferent, deferential, dutiful, fearful, obeisant, regardful, respectful, reverent, reverential), sahte sofu (pharisee, sanctimonious), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), göstermelik (claptrap, false, for effect, for show, nominal, ostensible, rose water, sample, specimen), dindar (devotee, devotional, devout, godfearing, godly, prayerful, religious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | побожний (devotional, devout, religious, sanctimonious, spiritual), доброзичливий (amiable, benevolent, benignant, boon, charitable, good natured, sympathetic, well disposed, well-affected, well-willed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lễ độ một sự lừa dối có thiện ý. (various references) | |
Welsh | duwiolfrydig (god-fearing), duwiol (godly), crefyddol (religious). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | appiae, appii, castus, pia pium, pie, pios, pius, sancta, sanctae, sanctam, sanctas, sancte, sancti, sanctimonialis, sanctior, sanctis, sanctissima, sanctissimae, sanctissimas, sanctissimis, sanctissimum, sanctissimus, sanctius, sancto, sanctoque, sanctorum, sanctos, sanctum, sanctumque, sanctus, sanctusque. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | dahma, drikhubyô. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pious": piously, piousness, piousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pious": copious, impious. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pious": copiously, copiousness, copiousnesses, impiously. (additional references) | |
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"Pious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bious, Iouis, ious, ipos, Ipsus, lious, pajou, paxus, Peipus, peooow, Phiroun, phous, Picus, pience, pieous, pieuse, pigout, pilou, pilus, pinous, pions, pionuse, pios, piou, Pirou, pitous, pius, Piyush, plious, poids, poilus, Poipou, pois, poisous, poohs, potous, Pous, prous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pious" (pronounced pī"us) |
| 3 | -ī" u s | bias. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: opus, piso, pois, soup. | |
-2 letters: ops, pis, piu, poi, psi, pus, sip, sop, sou, sup, upo, ups. | |
-3 letters: is, op, os, pi, si, so, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: opiums, pilous, poilus. | |
+2 letters: adipous, copious, impious, inpours, oilcups, piceous, pigouts, pileous, piously, piteous, podiums, poussie, pulsion, slipout, soupier, souping, spinous, spinout, spumoni, unipods, upboils, upcoils, upsilon, utopias, utopism, utopist. | |
+3 letters: autopsic, biparous, captious, copihues, cuspidor, eohippus, epigeous, epigonus, euploids, groupies, imporous, impounds, ingroups, occiputs, occupies, opiumism, optimums, opuntias, outstrip, paviours, perilous, pervious, pirogues, piroques, pishogue, pluviose, pluvious, populism, populist, postique, poussies, poutiest, poxvirus, precious, previous, protiums, provirus, pruinose, prurigos, pulsions, purloins, pyritous, rhizopus, roupiest, slipouts, soupiest, spacious, specious, spinouts, spousing, spouting, spumonis, spurious, suboptic, subtopia, subtopic, superior, unpoised, unspoilt, upsilons, utopians, utopisms, utopists, viperous, wipeouts. | |
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