Dutifulness

  • 81piety — [n] devotion, religiousness allegiance, application, ardor, belief, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, duty, faith, fealty, fervor, fidelity, godliness, grace, holiness, loyalty, obedience, passion, religion, religiosity, reverence, sanctity,… …

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  • 82truth — [n1] reality, validity accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel*, gospel truth*, honest truth*, infallibility,… …

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  • 83pietà — ► NOUN ▪ a picture or sculpture of the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Christ. ORIGIN Italian, from Latin pietas dutifulness …

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  • 84piteous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ deserving or arousing pity. DERIVATIVES piteously adverb piteousness noun. ORIGIN Old French piteus, from Latin pietas dutifulness …

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  • 85piteously — piteous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ deserving or arousing pity. DERIVATIVES piteously adverb piteousness noun. ORIGIN Old French piteus, from Latin pietas dutifulness …

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  • 86piteousness — piteous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ deserving or arousing pity. DERIVATIVES piteously adverb piteousness noun. ORIGIN Old French piteus, from Latin pietas dutifulness …

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  • 87dutiful — [do͞ot′i fəl, dyo͞ot′ifəl] adj. 1. showing, or resulting from, a sense of duty 2. having a proper sense of duty; obedient dutifully adv. dutifulness n …

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  • 88impiety — [im pī′ə tē] n. [ME impietie < OFr or L: OFr impiété < L impietas] 1. a lack of piety; specif., a) lack of reverence for God b) lack of respect or dutifulness, as toward a parent 2. pl. impieties an impious act or remark …

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  • 89impious — [im′pē əs] adj. [L impius] not pious; specif., a) lacking reverence for God b) lacking respect or dutifulness, as toward a parent impiously adv. impiousness n …

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  • 90dutiful — adj. doing or observant of one s duty; obedient. Derivatives: dutifully adv. dutifulness n …

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