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

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)

In Paterson's "Pietas Londinensis" there is a list of public services at many London churches, as held in the early part of the eighteenth century.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by Worley, George

But the destroyer became the restorer, and Pietas Julia, in the height of its greatness, far surpassed the extent either of the elder or the younger Pola.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Pietas has the religious note which the other words lack, loving dutifulness to gods and home and country.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various