Pietas
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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 Ruskin, John
Journal" he refers to it in the following terms: "It is exactly Pietas Hallensis in miniature....
From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.
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)
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