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pious

adj
/ˈpaɪəs/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewH- Proto-Italic *pwījosder. Latin piusbor. English pious Borrowed from Latin pīus (“pious, dutiful, blessed, kind, devout”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“pure”). Cognate with Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”). More at feal.

  1. derived from *pewH-✻
  2. borrowed from pīus

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.

    • Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.

  2. Relating to religion or religious works.

    • A pious cause.

  3. Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others

    Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.

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Derived

offensive to pious ears, overpious, pi, pious fiction, pious fraud, piously, piousness, pseudopious, superpious, ultrapious, unpious

Vish — recursive loop

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

9 hops · closes at pious

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