Words similar to piety

Example sentences for: piety

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Combining Shinto ritual with official Buddhist conformity, they revived the Confucian ideals of filial piety and obedience to authority to bolster their government.
Yoritomo’s piety bought him a little more time to enjoy his success; he was 52 when he was thrown by a horse and died of his injuries.
Nossa Senhora da Piedade (Our Lady of Piety) was originally founded just after the island’s discovery during the early- to middle-15th century.
1 Aesthetics . Christian sportswear bears the same relation to piety that Tommy Hilfiger clothing does to good taste: It's a cheesy, commercialized imitation of the real thing.
A half-century later, Austen's great-nephew wrote a classically priggish memoir that cast Jane as the perfect Victorian lady, a superwoman of piety and self-denial.