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impiety

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Impiety  \Im*pi"e*ty\,  n.;  pl  {Impieties}.  [L.  impietas  fr 
  impius  impious;  cf  F.  impi['e]t['e].  See  {Impious}, 
  {Piety}.] 
  1.  The  quality  of  being  impious;  want  of  piety;  irreverence 
  toward  the  Supreme  Being  ungodliness;  wickedness. 
 
  2.  An  impious  act  an  act  of  wickednes. 
 
  Those  impieties  for  the  which  they  are  now  visited. 
  --Shak. 
 
  Syn:  Ungodliness;  irreligion;  unrighteousness;  sinfulness; 
  profaneness;  wickedness;  godlessness. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  impiety 
  n  :  unrighteousness  by  virtue  of  lacking  respect  for  a  god  [syn: 
  {impiousness}]  [ant:  {piety}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  IMPIETY,  n.  Your  irreverence  toward  my  deity.




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