How To Use Impiety In A Sentence
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He could not bear that judgment so unjust should go forth against us, and, moved with indignation, he asked leave to defend his brethren, and to prove that there was in them no kind of irreligion or impiety.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
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Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution.
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Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth.
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Now, to determine the day and year of this inevitable time, is not only convincible and statute madness, but also manifest impiety.
Religio Medici
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We are to renounce impiety and worldly passions.
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While some ancient sources claim that these positions led to his having been tried for impiety in Athens and his books burned, these stories may well have been later legends.
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Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as the appearance of impiety was, once upon a time.
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It seems this one single use left such an indelible sacredness upon them, that neither the villainy of the persons, nor the impiety of the design, could be a sufficient reason to unhallow and degrade them to the same common use that other vessels may be applied to.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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Rome would continue to anathematize the French Revolution as the origin of modern impiety and anti-clericalism, a change happily accepted by all those who gloried in these attitudes.
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Furthermore, religious freedom was so clearly subordinated to the notion of impiety and later of heresy as to require special treatment.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
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The prophetic message consisted of three different portions: -- First, Sennacherib is apostrophized (2Ki 19: 21-28) in a highly poetical strain, admirably descriptive of the turgid vanity, haughty pretensions, and presumptuous impiety of the Assyrian despot.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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If good and bad are merely what seem good and bad to the individual observer, then how can one claim that stealing or adultery or impiety or murder are somehow wrong?
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He was tried for impiety, but acquitted by the Athenian jury.
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'The fashionable doctrine (says he) both of moralists and criticks in these times is, that virtue and happiness are constant concomitants; and it is regarded as a kind of dramatick impiety to maintain that virtue should not be rewarded, nor vice punished in the last scene of the last act of every tragedy.
Life Of Johnson
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The impiety is real, nonetheless when it has been treated with colour according to a thoughts of a Holy Spirit a complaint continues since a immorality suggestion has joined his complaint to a scolding of a conscience.
THE DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-By Watchman Nee A Fair Mitre
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Radical impiety is not an answer any more than orthodoxy.
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According to a garbled ancient tradition he was tried for embezzlement and/or impiety at Athens or Olympia (where his workshop has been excavated) and was executed or died in exile.
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` That all have revolted, that they are become unprofitable, that is, none who does good, no not one; their throat is an open sepulcher; there is no fear of God before their eyes, '(Psalm 5: 10; 14: 3) he deplores, truly, the impiety of his own age; yet Paul (Romans 3: 12) does not scruple to extend it to all men of every age: and with justice; for it is not a mere complaint concerning a few men, but a description of the human mind when left to itself, destitute of the
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
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There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good.
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The Kievan Russians believed that God had sent the hordes as punishment for their impiety — a belief endorsed by the Orthodox Church, which prospered under Mongol protection.
Russia Is Finished
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There are some that detest them as a kind of sacrilege and count it the height of impiety to speak so irreverently of such hidden things, rather to be adored than explicated; to dispute of them with such profane and heathenish niceties; to define them so arrogantly and pollute the majesty of divinity with such pithless and sordid terms and opinions.
In Praise of Folly
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The scolding of demur ceases once a impiety is confessed as good as cleansed by a changed blood, nonetheless a complaint of a rivalry continues even after what is indicted has been dealt with.
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For the next seven years Galileo kept a relatively low profile, complaining bitterly in private about ‘the ignorance, malice and impiety of my opponents who have won the day’.
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Within a remarkably short time, it was realized that the family was failing to control the impiety and insubordination of the younger generation.
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Shortly before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War he was charged by the political opponents of Pericles with impiety, that is, with denying the gods recognized by the State.
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The Genesis legends of Cain and Nimrod, Babel and Sodom uniformly attribute impiety, pride, idolatry, luxury, crime and moral depravity to all cities and their founders, Sodom included.
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Less addicted to the study of cartography, the following generations comprehended that this dilated map was useless and, not without impiety, delivered it to the inclemencies of the sun and of the winters.
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The common construction put upon the expression, "_rule with rigor_," and an inference drawn from it, have an air so oracular, as quite to overcharge risibles of ordinary calibre, if such an effect were not forestalled by its impiety.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth.
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Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
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Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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When did the fool stop saying in his heart, "There is no God," and acting godlessly in the absurdity of his impiety?
Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks
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And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading.
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Suidas called Lucian “The Blasphemer;” and he added that he was torn to pieces by dogs for his impiety.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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Eleazar maintained that it was a great impiety to remain uncircumcised.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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When he shall have arrived at his full stature in impiety, shall have filled up the measure of his iniquity, then all shall be called over again.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Now to determine the day and year of this inevitable time, is not onely convincible [110] and statute-madness, [111] but also manifest impiety.
Religio Medici
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In 399 he was charged with impiety (through not duly recognising the gods the city recognised, and introducing new, unrecognised divinities) and, a separate alleged offence, corrupting the young.
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Vain to call in universal-suffrage parliaments at that stage: the universal-suffrage parliaments cannot give you any breath of life, cannot find any _wisdom_ for you; by long impiety, you have let the supply of noble human wisdom die out; and the wisdom that now courts your universal suffrages is beggarly human _attorneyism_ or sham-wisdom, which is _not_ an insight into the Laws of God's Universe, but into the laws of hungry Egoism and the Devil's Chicane, and can in the end profit no community or man.
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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The fashion of taking it for granted that the whole world is fast going over to the gospel of ganglia and bathybius, of _vox populi et præterea nihil_, is not confined to the 'fanatics of impiety' in France.
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
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For there is no doubt, but an evil choice (the thing here meant by malice) is that which greatens the impiety and guilt of an action into the nature of presumption; which action, done out of a sudden incogitancy, might pass for but a weakness, and so stand rated at a much lower pitch of guilt.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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Chaucer's habit of poking fun at pardoners and summoners is not so much an example of impiety as a way of demonstrating how much virtue he has to spare.
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Then, by Heaven, we have discovered the source of this vain opinion of all those physical investigators; and I would have you examine their arguments with the utmost care, for their impiety is a very serious matter; they not only make a bad and mistaken use of argument, but they lead away the minds of others: that is my opinion of them.
Laws
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And opposite to him his mutinous son was sitting asprawl in a chair, smoking a cheap cigarette with an exceptionally heavy scowl; a lively picture of youthful impiety.
The Complete Father Brown
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Sabbath-hallowing is intended as a symbol of holiness in general (Eze 20: 12); therefore much stress is laid on it; the Jews 'gross impiety is manifested in their setting
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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We contingency realize most confidently which a Holy Spirit never reproves offer if a impiety is cleansed by a changed red red red blood as good as forsaken.
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