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Definition of Piosity
1. an excessive show of piety [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piosity
Literary usage of Piosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of American Literature, 1607-1865 by William Peterfield Trent (1908)
"It was also a period of adoring admirers of sentimentality and piosity, who
besought their favourite poetess to write them bridal songs and elegies. ..."
2. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times: Or, Sketches of the Anti-slavery by Oliver Johnson, John Greenleaf Whittier (1881)
"... between piety and "piosity," between sincerity and cant. When they saw on the
one hand the slave clanking his chains, and on the other the great body of ..."
3. William Lloyd Garrison and His Times: Or, Sketches of the Anti-slavery by Oliver Johnson, John Greenleaf Whittier (1881)
"... between piety and "piosity," between sincerity and cant. When they saw on the
one hand the slave clanking his chains, and on the other the great body of ..."
4. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1899)
"the soul of a waif forced into the ministerial life (hence " Uncalled") by the
stern " piosity" of an adopted mother, whose original may be " Miss Ophelia ..."
5. Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"However it is done, it should be honest, frank, and free from piosity. "I am
certain that, in my own case, rather frequent .intercourse is decidedly ..."
6. The Findings of the Continuation Committee Conferences Held in Asia, 1912 by Harlan Page Beach (1913)
"... and a self-denying saint- liness that will eclipse the external asceticism
and piosity of fakirs, yogis and all other varieties of Asiatic ecstatics. ..."
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