FromMiddle Englishpiete, borrowed fromMiddle Frenchpieté, fromLatinpietās. See also the doubletspietà andpity. Bysurface analysis,pious +-ety.
piety (countable anduncountable,pluralpieties)
- (uncountable, religion)Reverence anddevotion toGod.
Colleen'spiety led her to make sacrifices that most people would not have made.
- (uncountable) Similar reverence to one'sparents andfamily or to one'scountry.
patriotism aspiety, when done right
- (countable) Adevout or otherwiselaudableact,thought, orstatement.
- Aplatitude that may be empty or at leastfacile andundercommitted.
He was quick with thepieties about hard work, honest communication, active listening, and respecting others' viewpoints, but walking the walk is different from talking the talk.
reverence and devotion to God
- Arabic:تَقْوَى(taqwā)
- Armenian:բարեպաշտություն (hy)(barepaštutʻyun)
- Bulgarian:набожност (bg)(nabožnost)
- Catalan:pietat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:虔誠 /虔诚 (zh)(qiánchéng)
- Czech:zbožnost f,nábožnost f
- Dutch:vroomheid (nl)
- Esperanto:pieco
- Finnish:hurskaus (fi)
- French:piété (fr) f
- Galician:piedade (gl) f
- Georgian:ღვთისმოსაობა(ɣvtismosaoba),ღვთისმოშიშობა(ɣvtismošišoba)
- German:Frömmigkeit (de) f
- Greek:ευσέβεια (el) f(efséveia)
- Ancient Greek:εὐσέβεια f(eusébeia)
- Hungarian:vallásosság (hu)
- Irish:crábhadh m,cráifeacht f,beannaíocht f
- Italian:pietà (it)
- Japanese:篤信 (ja)(とくしん, tokushin)
- Kazakh:құдайшылдық(qūdaişyldyq)
- Latvian:pietāte (lv) f
- Macedonian:на́божност f(nábožnost),благоче́стие n(blagočéstie)
- Manx:craueeaght f
- Maori:whakaponotanga
- Occitan:pietat (oc) f
- Polish:pobożność (pl) f,bogobojność (pl) f
- Portuguese:piedade (pt) f
- Romanian:evlavie (ro),pietate (ro)
- Russian:на́божность (ru)(nábožnostʹ),благоче́стие (ru) n(blagočéstije)
- Scottish Gaelic:cràbhadh m
- Spanish:piedad (es) f
- Swedish:fromhet (sv) c
- Turkish:dindarlık (tr),sofuluk (tr),takva (tr),züht (tr)
- Ukrainian:набо́жність f(nabóžnistʹ)
- Yiddish:פֿרומקייט f(frumkeyt)
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reverence to one's family
Translations to be checked
piety
- Alternative form ofpiete
