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piety

[pahy-i-tee] / ˈpaɪ ɪ ti /


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So much so that some state media have tried to steer the discussion online towards traditionals concepts of filial piety, urging young people to be more understanding of their parents.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

The shift from politics to piety is not just thematic.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2026

You’ve seen a couple hundred of them by the time you hit second or third grade, so you become familiar with the muted ethereal glow, the heavenly gaze and the look of piety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

The pope "wanted to see for himself what is happening in Monaco, where this movement of renewal is based on an embraced faith, and on an inclusive popular piety and devotion," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

Much of the public wanted a different take on war - and one that challenged solemn pieties at the heart of Official Remembrance.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Some take comfort in hoary comic patterns, souped-up eccentricity and reassuring pieties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

Bakewell describes how he “trashes all the humanistic pieties on the subject of reading,” defending, for example, the right to unapologetically toss a dull book aside.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2023

The Damphair might disapprove, but Aeron and his pieties were far away.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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