Pietas

American  

[pahy-i-tas] / ˈpaɪ ɪˌtæs /

noun

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

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Pietas

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

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 George Worley

Pietas is therefore a virtue, that of obedience to the will of God as shown in private and public life, and it herein differs from religio, which is not a virtue, but a feeling.

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

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 Hugh Binning

Now in this broad definition of Pietas, as reverence to sentimental law, you will find I am supported by all classical authority and use of this word.

From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin

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