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% # 987. Piety. - N. piety, religion, theism, faith; religiousness, holiness &c. adj.; saintship[obs3]; religionism[obs3]; sanctimony &c. (assumed piety) Impiety; reverence &c. (respect) Respect; humility, veneration, devotion; prostration &c. (worship) Worship; grace, unction, edification; sanctity, sanctitude[obs3]; consecration.
spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness.
theopathy[obs3], beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life; Body and Blood of Christ.
believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist[obs3]; the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect; Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame[Fr], Our Lady.
the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, the children of the light.
V. be pious &c. adj.; have faith &c. n.; believe, receive Christ; revere &c. Respect; be converted &c.
convert, edify, sanctify, keep holy, beatify, regenerate, inspire, consecrate, enshrine.
Adj. pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly- minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic; saintly, saint-like; seraphic, sacred, solemn.
believing, faithful, Christian, Catholic.
elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth.
Phr. ne vile fano[It]; "pure-eyed Faith . . . thou hovering angel girt with golden wings" [Milton].
[feigned piety] hypocrisy &c. (falsehood) Falsehood; pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion[obs3], formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness &c. adj; pharisaism,
hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.
sinner &c. Bad Man; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist[obs3]; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite &c. (dissembler) Deceiver; Tartufe[obs3], Mawworm[obs3].
bigot; saint [ironically]; Pharisee; sabbatarian[obs3], formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist[obs3], precisian[obs3], religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado[obs3].
the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate; sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one; children of darkness.
V. be impious &c. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear &c. (malediction) Malediction; commit sacrilege.
snuffle; turn up the whites of the eyes; idolize.
Adj. impious; irreligious &c. Irreligion; desecrating &c.v.; profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.
un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate.
hypocritical &c. (false) Falsehood; canting, pietistical[obs3], sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous[obs3], righteous over much.
bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden.
Adv. under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion.
Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio[It].
skepticism, doubt; unbelief, disbelief; incredulity, incredulousness &c. adj[obs3].; want of faith, want of belief; pyrrhonism; bout &c. Doubt, Unbelief; agnosticism.
atheism; deism; hylotheism[obs3]; materialism; positivism; nihilism.
infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity[obs3], rationalism; neology.
[person who is not religious] atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour[obs3], heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri fort[Fr], freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist[obs3], theophobist[obs3].
V. be irreligious &c. adj.; disbelieve, lack faith; doubt, question &c. Doubt, Unbelief.
dechristianize[obs3].
Adj. irreligious; indevout[obs3]; undevout[obs3]; devoutless[obs3], godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified[obs3], unhallowed; atheistic, without God.
skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; incredulous, faithless, lacking faith; deistical; unchristian, antichristian[obs3].
worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly &c. minded.
Adv. irreligiously &c. adj.
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