devoutness

Tartuffe is the embodiment of the master con artist — a pretentious person who fakes religious devoutness, convincing a benefactor that he is a moral person.

Winning admiration from some Jews for its devoutness, the group is condemned by others as a cult-like sect.

It’s probably a better idea to avoid vouching for “devoutness” altogether.

He was impressed, he said, by bin Laden’s “devoutness.”

As he uses Rathbun’s old tactics against his observers, Theroux raises troubling questions about psychological warfare and how devoutness shades into fanaticism.