5 March 2016

impiety

[im-pahy-i-tee]

noun, plural impieties.

1. lack of piety; lack of reverence for God or sacred things; irreverence.
2. lack of dutifulness or respect.
3. an impious act, practice, etc.

Origin of impiety

Middle English, Latin

1300-1350; Middle English impietie < Latin impietās, equivalent to impi (us) impious + -etās, variant, after vowels, of -itās -ity

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Examples from the Web for impiety

Contemporary Examples

P.S. Bertrand Russell uses the word “ impiety ” in relation to luniks and further attempts and he is right.
Leonard Bernstein Asked About Hemingway, So Martha Gellhorn Set the Record Straight
Leonard Bernstein, Martha Gellhorn
October 26, 2013

Historical Examples

But to assert that even the most unguarded passages of the book made for impiety was a great mistake.
Expositor’s Bible: The Book of Job
Robert Watson

The impiety and the vices of the hero horrified the family and scandalized the island.
The Dead Command
Vicente Blasco Ibez

The King wished to say that the gods would not suffer the impiety of his sister to go unpunished.
Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw

To his young chivalry it was as an impiety to look upon her tears.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady
Lucas Malet

I would beg of you to be patient, and learn the truth of the legislator and others; in the mean time abstain from impiety.
Laws
Plato

But their tongues were confused as a punishment for their impiety.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians
John Wesley Powell

But the French have the art of rendering vice and impiety more agreeable than the English.
Dialogues of the Dead
Lord Lyttelton

Anagram

tie my pi
yeti imp

Today’s quote

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

– Joseph Stalin

On this day

5 March 1946 – The term ‘Iron Curtain’ to describe the Soviet Union and Communist Europe, is coined in a speech by Winston Churchill.

5 March 1953 – USSR leader Joseph Stalin died at his dacha at Kuntseva,15km west of Moscow, following a stroke three days earlier. An autopsy suggested he may have died from ingesting warfarin, a rat poison which thins the blood, and that this may have caused the cerebral hemorrhage. The warfarin may have been added to his food by Deputy Premier Beria and Nikita Khrushchev. It was later revealed by former Politburo member, Vyacheslav Molotov in his 1993 memoirs that Beria had boasted of poisoning Stalin. Born 18 December 1878.