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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pious \Pi"ous\, adjective [L. pius: cf. F. pieux.]
1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly. ''Pious hearts.'' --Milton. ''Pious poetry.'' --Johnson.
Where was the martial brother's pious care? --Pope.
2. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.
Syn: Godly; devout; religious; righteous.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pious
adjective
1: having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings" [ant: {impious}]
2: devoutly religious; "a god-fearing and law-abiding people" H.L.Mencken [syn: {devout}, {god-fearing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "pious": Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, God-fearing, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, adoring, affected, angelic, assured, believing, canting, certain, confident, convinced, cultish, cultist, cultistic, dedicated, devoted, devout, dogmatic, doubtless, dutiful, faithful, false, fideistic, fraudulent, godlike, godly, good, goody, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, holy, hypocritical, impressed with, insincere, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, moral, oily, persuaded, pharisaic, pietistic, pistic, positive, prayerful, pretended, priestly, religious, reverent, reverential, right-minded, saintly, sanctified, sanctimonious, satisfied, secure, self-righteous, seraphic, smarmy, sniveling, sold on, solemn, spiritual, sure, theistic, unctuous, under the impression, undoubtful, undoubting, venerational, venerative, virtuous, worshipful
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