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piety

noun
/ˈpaɪ.ɪ.ti/

Etymology

From Middle English piete, borrowed from Middle French pieté, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and pity. By surface analysis, pious + -ety.

  1. derived from pietās
  2. derived from pieté
  3. inherited from piete

Definitions

  1. Reverence and devotion to God.

    • Colleen's piety led her to make sacrifices that most people would not have made.

  2. Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country.

    • patriotism as piety, when done right

  3. A devout or otherwise laudable act, thought, or statement.

The neighborhood

Derived

baroque piety, filial piety, in piety, pietism, pietist, unpiety

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at piety. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at piety. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at piety

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA