Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or state of being impious.
- n. An impious act.
- n. Undutifulness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The condition or quality of being impious or devoid of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.
- n. An impious act; an act of wickedness or irreligion.
- n. Violation of natural duty or obligation toward others; want of reverence or respect, in general; undutifulness, as toward parents: as, filial impiety.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being impious
- n. An impious act
- n. The lack of respect for a god or something sacred
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality of being impious; lack of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.
- n. An impious act; an act of wickedness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god
Examples
“The scolding of demur ceases once a impiety is confessed as good as cleansed by a changed blood, nonetheless a complaint of a rivalry continues even after what is indicted has been dealt with.”
“The impiety is real, nonetheless when it has been treated with colour according to a thoughts of a Holy Spirit a complaint continues since a immorality suggestion has joined his complaint to a scolding of a conscience.”
“We contingency realize most confidently which a Holy Spirit never reproves offer if a impiety is cleansed by a changed red red red blood as good as forsaken.”
“When he shall have arrived at his full stature in impiety, shall have filled up the measure of his iniquity, then all shall be called over again.”
“Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
“Then, by Heaven, we have discovered the source of this vain opinion of all those physical investigators; and I would have you examine their arguments with the utmost care, for their impiety is a very serious matter; they not only make a bad and mistaken use of argument, but they lead away the minds of others: that is my opinion of them.”
“Furthermore, religious freedom was so clearly subordinated to the notion of impiety and later of heresy as to require special treatment.”
“The opposites to religion are, impiety, that is, the neglect and contempt of God, and eqeloqrhskeia will-worship, or superstition, that is, a mode of religion invented by man.”
“There remains the charge of impiety, which is made to rest on Henry having called the Almighty to witness a falsehood, and quoted”
“It would certainly be a wonder, if God, taking away from his people his ordinary oracles, should bestow upon them a nobler oracle, or as noble; and that when the nation had degenerated, and were sunk into all kind of impiety, superstition, heresy.”
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