Pious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• marked by religious reverence
• devoutly religious
• making or constituting a hypocritical display of virtue
• (of a hope) sincere but unlikely to be fulfilled.
• deeply religious, devout
• Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
• Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.
• having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
• dutiful or loyal, especially towards one's parents.

Words related to PIOUS

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Words that contain PIOUS

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How to use PIOUS in a sentence

• However, her visions are neither mere human meditations nor pious fiction.
• The interest of the whole was then to be devoted to masses for the founders, or to other pious and benevolent purposes.
• A zealous and pious missionary of the Church of England came to the Chippewas located on the left, or British, side of the St.
• Now the son was a very pious man, who never failed in his religious rites.
• A pious young woman, a member of Society, wished to go to her friends, then living in Jamaica.
• The pious Fratricelli in the middle ages had loudly expressed their belief that the fatal gift of a Roman emperor had been the doom of true religion.
• Having thus supplied them with these lights, the pious widow left them to their own conversation and retired to the little room in order to repeat her rosary.
• Adam and Eve also sat near the body of their pious son, weeping bitterly, and not knowing how to dispose of his lifeless clay.
• That traffic was so obnoxious to every sense of propriety that any vigorous attack upon it would command the approval of many honest and pious people.
• He never left the chateau, except to go each day on a pious pilgrimage within a few steps.
• The character of his countenance was venerable, cheerful, contented, and pious.
• To administer comfort, if not to afford protection, to the family, the minister and divers pious neighbours came to the house to pray.
• The ten who graduated in March were all hopefully pious, well educated, and quite refined, and most of them were expected to become teachers in their own villages.
• Under the most pious and amiable professions, all the Christian states of to-day are, as a matter of fact, engaged in slave-breeding.
• She appears to be uttering all those pious sayings and complaints which Virgil Maro writes concerning her.
• Jeanne, at least in the beginning, was one of those pious folk.
• She was pious, God-fearing, but she did not keep her maiden purity.
• From the neighboring villages for miles and miles the pious have come to be blessed by me.
• Let every boy who has pious parents, read and think about this.
• And wilt thou tell us what he told thee about these pious men? Dan asked, a smile playing about his long thin mouth.
• She lived here as a pious widow, and practised works of mercy.
• The peace between the two countries was too ephemeral to permit the realisation of his pious hope.
• Nor was this humility, on another side, wholly pious and sacrificial.
• Having accomplished this pious task, he gave a vent to his constructive ambition by a grand addition to the temple on its eastern side.

Similar words containing PIOU without suffix s

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