impiousness
Example Sentences
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On the morning of the day before Judy's departure Blanche, who, half-packed, was still trying to make up her mind, received a letter that, with no sense of impiousness, she considered providential.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
With the unconscious egotism of the devotee, he felt that heaven had been avenging the impiousness of his sin.
From The Puritans by Arlo Bates
This commotion answered my purpose exceedingly well,—my object being to bear testimony against the impiousness of such a distinction and separation in the house of God.
From American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Ebenezer Davies
His prophetic spirit foretold to him that the impiousness of the sons he would beget would make their death to be preferable to their life.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin
His father would stand aghast at his impiousness; his mother, class conscious as few of the under dogs are ever class conscious, would refuse to receive this girl as her daughter….
From Youth Challenges by Clarence Budington Kelland
