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

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 P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen

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

The English poem, by John Vicars, embellished with this woodcut, was published in 1617, being a much expanded version of one in Latin hexameters, entitled Pietas Pontificia, by Francis Herring, which appeared in 1606.

From What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence by John Gerard

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 Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey