piety
piety [piety pieties] BrE [ˈpaɪəti] NAmE [ˈpaɪəti] noun uncountable the state of having or showing a deep respect for sb/sth, especially for God and religion; the state of being ↑pious Opp: ↑impiety Word Origin: early 16th cent. (in the sense ‘devotion to religious observances’): from Old French piete, from Latin pietas ‘dutifulness’, from pius ‘dutiful, pious’.
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