Pietas

American  

[pahy-i-tas] / ˈpaɪ ɪˌtæs /

noun

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

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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 Binning, Hugh

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)

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 James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

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 Fowler, W. Warde