Piety

piety [ PAHY-i-tee ]
[ noun ]

MEANING :
1. devotion to God
2. the state of showing reverence for God or an act of devotion
3. dutiful respect for parents

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Some tourists who attended the Sunday prayer service in that village were impressed by the piety of the local people.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
Her aim was not militaristic, but she recognised that boys responded more enthusiastically to a uniformed organisation kept busy with Army activities than they did to the evangelising movements of the time that sought to 'rescue’ the deserving poor through high-mindedness and piety.

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