Pietas
Americannoun
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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
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
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 M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
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
I know whole quarters of the towns of that life where they have never heard of Virtus or Verecundia or Pietas.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
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