piously's Usage Examples:

writing about it and about it, all this is sport; but to us who struggle piously, passionately, to behold, but in glimpses, the faces of our vanished Fathers.

The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from Bede, who piously expunged apostates (Unde cunctis placuit regum tempora computantibus, ut.

He had a devotion toward Sufism, and so went to Egypt and resided piously by the Ka‘bah.

Albert's Well, and the Carmelites say that those who piously use the water receive healing of both body and mind through the intercession.

He is said to have at first reflected the attitude of the "piously apolitical ulama" and refused to take a stand in favor of the Constitution.

designated by the Pope, for pilgrims who enter through those doors may piously gain the plenary indulgences attached with the Jubilee year celebrations.

Though situated like any deathbed portrait, the dying man is not looking piously towards the heavens, but into a mirror, while surrounded by mourners.

cannot be proved beyond doubt, it is wise and pragmatic to honour them by piously offering the time-hallowed rites.

convent of her order, and there she is believed to have ended her days most piously amid marks of the sincerest repentance.

His followers piously referred to this monk as 'Swamiji' or 'Bhikshu Swami'.

dressed in the finery of a medieval canon, including white surplice, as he piously reads from a book of hours.

Maugham in the novel The Moon and Sixpence wherein it is used, somewhat piously, by a family member to imply a certain justice in the demise of the central.

intended meaning and was adopted with approval by some patriotically- or piously-minded Poles unaware of Stroński's ironic intent.

Nevertheless, Peter is given three days as promised to prepare piously for his death.

Having lost his father in his early youth, he was piously educated by his mother.

Though prayer to God is piously recommended in the accompanying poem, Yet while to Him you carry your trust.

It unites them piously with those absent and those dead.

Spartokos, have in the same way as their predecessors continually acted piously towards the gods, and have shown kindness to those of the citizens who.

of her father-in-law and husband: 'she learned Holy Scripture and lived piously, thus reproving the impiety of those men [Leo and Constantine]'.

are unable to be present at the rite itself and who instead follow it piously by radio, television, or the internet.

Synonyms:

devoutly;