Impiety

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impiety \Im*pi"e*ty\ ([i^]m*p[imac]"[-e]*t[y^]), n.; pl.
     {Impieties} ([i^]m*p[imac]"[-e]*t[i^]z). [L. impietas, fr.
     impius impious; cf. F. impi['e]t['e]. See {Impious},
     {Piety}.]
     1. The quality of being impious; lack of piety; irreverence
        toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.


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     2. An impious act; an act of wickedness.
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              Those impieties for the which they are now visited.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     Syn: Ungodliness; irreligion; unrighteousness; sinfulness;
          profaneness; wickedness; godlessness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impiety
       n : unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god [syn:
            {impiousness}] [ant: {piety}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "impiety":
     blasphemousness, blasphemy, desecration, godlessness, irreligion,
     profanation, profaneness, profanity, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness,
     sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness,
     ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness,
     wickedness
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  IMPIETY, n.  Your irreverence toward my deity.