GDict

impiety

im'paiәti3 senses · 811 ms
Level C2
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noun
  1. 1

    The state of being impious.uncountableusually

  2. 2

    An impious act.countableusually

    • [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit
  3. 3

    The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.uncountableusually

syn. ungodliness

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