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Impiety

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being impious. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god wordnet
  3. 3
    An impious act. countable, usually

    "[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 [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]"

  4. 4
    The lack of respect for a god or something sacred. uncountable, usually

Etymology

From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas, from in- (“not”) + pietas (“piety”), from pius (“pious, devout”) + -tās (“-ty, -dom”). By surface analysis, impious + -ety.

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