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[syn: impiety, impiousness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
impiety
n 1: unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god
[syn: impiety, impiousness] [ant: piety, piousness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.