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Definition of Impieties
1. impiety [n] - See also: impiety
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impieties
Literary usage of Impieties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1852)
"... DIRECT impieties, AND GIVE WARRANTY TO A WICKED LIFE. a sinner is not bound
presently to repent of his sin as soon as he hath committed it. ..."
2. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg, George Woolworth Colton (1918)
"All impieties and the glorying in them are permissions, the causes of which are
laws of the Divine providence. Every man can freely, yea, most freely, ..."
3. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1837)
"... and vain pleasures, as well as grosser impieties, the minds of men and women
were fixed, and now much they were degenerated from the ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"many horrible murders, treasons, and impieties, for all which he was now brought
to suffer condign punishment ; with all those insolent reproaches upon his ..."
5. Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and Antiquities by John Gorham Palfrey (1852)
"REBUKE OF PREVAILING impieties AND HYPOCRISY. — DELAY OF PROMISED BLESSINGS ON
THEIR ACCOUNT. — DESCRIPTIONS OF THE APPROACHING POWER AND GLORY OF THE ..."
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