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impiety

Roget category 988

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
6.5. Religious affections
›› 6.5.3. Religious sentiments

#988. Impiety

noun

impietysin etc. 945irreverenceprofaneness etc. adj. — profanity, profanationblasphemy, desecration, sacrilegescoffing etc. v.. [feigned piety] hypocrisy etc. (falsehood) 544pietism, cant, pious fraudlip devotion, lip service, lip reverencemisdevotion, formalism, austeritysanctimony, sanctimoniousness etc. adj. — pharisaism, precisianismsabbatism, sabbatarianism odium theologicum [Lat.], sacerdotalismbigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606, (prejudice) 481blue laws.
hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation.
sinner etc. 949scoffer, blasphemersacrilegistsabbath breakerworldlinghypocrite etc. (dissembler) 548Tartufe, Mawworm.
bigotsaint [Iron.]Phariseesabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devoteeranter, fanatic, juramentado.
the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobatesons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked onechildren of darkness.

verb

be impious etc. adj., profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoffswear etc. (malediction) 908commit sacrilege.
snuffleturn up the whites of the eyesidolize.

adjective

impiousirreligious etc. 989desecrating etc. v. — profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.
un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regeneratehardened, perverted, reprobate.
hypocritical etc. (false) 544canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much.
bigoted, fanaticalpriest-ridden.

adverb

under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion.

phrase

giovane santo diavolo vecchio [It].

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