Pietas

American  

[pahy-i-tas] / ˈpaɪ ɪˌtæs /

noun

1. the ancient Roman personification of familial affection, patriotism, and piety.

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Example Sentences

A modest space with small religious paintings and sketches from the 1840s and ’50s raises the emotional pitch with amazing Lamentations and Pietas, and a Rubenesque sketch for a Crucifix.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2018

At the end of the section on Pietas et patientia he comes to a dignified close, but immediately continues with a chapter on Revelationes which, one would think, ought not to have been an afterthought.

From Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

Pietas ipsa sibi merces est,—godliness is great gain in itself, though it had not such sweet consequents or companions.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Cicero, without any need, used Pietas and Lentulitas; and Pollio talks of Livy's Patauinitas.'

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)

Pietas is Virgil's word for religion, as it had been Cicero's in his more exalted moments.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde