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ɪmˈpaɪ ɪ tiimpi·ety

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. impiety, impiousnessnoun

    unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god

Wiktionary

  1. impietynoun

    The state of being impious

  2. impietynoun

    An impious act

  3. impietynoun

    The lack of respect for a god or something sacred

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Impietynoun

    Etymology: impieté, French; impietas, Latin.

    To keep that oath were more impiety
    Than Jeptha's, when he sacrific'd his daughter. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

    If they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of those impieties for which they are now visited. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

    Can Juno such impieties approve? John Denham.

    We have a melancholy prospect of the state of our religion: such amazing impieties can be equalled by nothing but by those cities consumed of old by fire. Jonathan Swift, Examiner.

Wikipedia

  1. Impiety

    Impiety is a perceived lack of proper respect for something considered sacred. Impiety is often closely associated with sacrilege, though it is not necessarily a physical action. Impiety cannot be associated with a cult, as it implies a larger belief system was disrespected. One of the Pagan objections to Christianity was that, unlike other mystery religions, early Christians refused to cast a pinch of incense before the images of the gods, an impious act in their eyes. Impiety in ancient civilizations was a civic concern, rather than solely religious (as religions were tied into the state). It was believed that impious actions such as disrespect towards sacred objects or priests could bring down the wrath of the gods.

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  1. impiety

    Impiety is the lack of respect or irreverence toward something considered sacred or important, especially a deity or religion. It can also refer to behavior or actions that go against religious customs, principles, or beliefs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Impietynoun

    the quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness

  2. Impietynoun

    an impious act; an act of wickednes

Wikidata

  1. Impiety

    Impiety is classically a lack of proper concern for the obligations owed to public religious observation or cult. Impiety was a main Pagan objection to Christianity, for unlike other initiates into mystery religions, early Christians refused to cast a pinch of incense before the images of the gods, among whom were the protective deified Emperors. Impiety in ancient civilizations was a civic concern, rather than religious. It was believed that it could bring down upon the whole res publica the wrath of the tutelary deities who protected the polis. Socrates was put to death for impiety; Anaxagoras was prosecuted for impiety and went into exile. Aristotle was also charged with impiety after the death of Alexander the Great. According to the Vita Aristotelis Marciana, a much mutilated single manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale di San Marco in Venice, written about 1300, Aristotle left the city, saying, "I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy". The medieval Christian compiler has rendered the Athenians' crime as a "sin". However, sin was an alien concept to the Greeks and Romans. In the New Testament, which most scholars assert was initially composed in Greek, the word "hamartia" was used. Hamartia is only very approximately translated as "sin."

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of impiety in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of impiety in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of impiety in a Sentence

  1. Juvenal:

    Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

  2. Ambrose Bierce:

    Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

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