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impieties

impieties is the plural of impiety.

Meaning of impiety

Noun

impiety (usually uncountable, plural impieties)

  1. (usually) The state of being impious.
    Synonyms:
    ungodliness
  2. (countable, usually) An impious act.
    • [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]: […]1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XIX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, page 184
  3. (usually) The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.

Questions about impieties

What is impieties the plural of?
Impieties is the plural of impiety.

Words near impieties in the dictionary

  1. impierce
  2. impierceable
  3. impierced
  4. impierces
  5. impiercing
  6. impieties
  7. impiety
  8. Impig
  9. impignorate
  10. impignorated
  11. impignorates

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