Piety
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Piety is the quality of being religious or reverent. Corporal and spiritual works of mercy are also called "acts of piety and charity".
Definition
- NOUN Plural (pieties)
[mass noun]
- 1. The quality of being religious or reverent.
- ‘acts of piety and charity’
- 1.1 [count noun] A belief which is accepted with unthinking conventional reverence.
- ‘the accepted pieties of our time’[1]
Compare Filial piety.