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impiety Definition
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impiety
noun
impieties
1. Lack of piety or devotion.
Thesaurus: godlessness, irreverence, wickedness, sinfulness.
2. An impious act.
Example: committed many impieties
Thesaurus: sacrilege, error, profanity, blasphemy, iniquity.
Etymology
: 14c (16c in sense 2): from French
impieté
, from Latin
impietas
.
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