How To Use Impious In A Sentence
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His father would stand aghast at his impiousness; his mother, class conscious as few of the under dogs are ever class conscious, would refuse to receive this girl as her daughter. ...
Youth Challenges
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We don't want no impiousness at this here shuckin ', Tim," observed William
The Miller of Old Church
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1 Happy the man who did not walk by the counsel of the impious, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit down in the seat of pestiferous people.
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the young members challenged their leader impiously
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The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth.
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Charleton tried to turn the tables on those who were calling atomism atheistic by declaring that, so far from being impious, atomism actually was a proof of the existence and power of God.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Does that mean, then, that she and her supporters are impious and immoral?
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For six months impious Hagarenes tried to make Zlata accept Islam, but she remained steadfast.
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The most likely explanation is that the dodecahedron was a cult object for the Pythagoreans (dodecahedra in stone and bronze have been found dating back to prehistoric times) and that it was because of these religious connections that Hippasus 'public work on the mathematical aspects of the solid was seen as impious (Burkert 1972a, 460).
Pythagoreanism
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His tomb bore this Latin graffito: "Hic jacet impius Pios" — "here lies an impious pope between two Piuses.
USATODAY.com - Papal funeral merges spectacle, symbolism
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I had witnessed an act of magnanimity it would not be impious to call godlike; I felt a need to know the outcome.
The Mask of Apollo
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Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and an impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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On the morning of the day before Judy's departure Blanche, who, half-packed, was still trying to make up her mind, received a letter that, with no sense of impiousness, she considered providential.
Secret Bread
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Yet they knew that the Massachusett Indians, for example, considered it impious and inhumane to deface the monuments of the dead.
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Catholic religion that she put to death in various ways a hundred thousand men accused of Manichæism — “this being,” says the modest continuator of Echard, “the most impious, the most detestable, the most dangerous, the most abominable of all heresies, for ecclesiastical censures were weapons of no avail against men who acknowledged not the church.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The lares, penates and relics of our sacred ancestors have been spared the impious axe of Jacobin tyranny.
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Priests of the Roman Church have in past centuries found themselves, sometimes under episcopal direction, in earnest battle against perceived local superstitions and impious social customs connected with holy wells.
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Such piety, is the salvation of families and states, just as the impious, which is unpleasing to the gods, is their ruin and destruction.
EUTHYPHRO
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So previously Cæcilius, Minuc. ix: “Per universum orbem sacraria ista taeterrima impiae coitionis adolescunt” (“All over the world the utterly foul rites of that impious union are flourishing apace”).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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`If it skirts the edge of impious things, as this other talk's done, then I shan't answer it.
A TIME OF WAR
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Piety will frown upon the man who has inherited goods from the impious ; that is, until he takes his style of dress from his own father.
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But of the spirituality of lower social levels we know little, apart from exemplary stories of the extraordinarily pious or impious found in hagiographies and other didactic works.
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Impious and ignorant are far more happy than they which are superstitious, no torture like to it, none so continuate, so general, so destructive, so violent.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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When informed that the Ingilis never prostrate themselves toward Mecca and say "Allah-il-allah!" they evince the greatest astonishment; and then the strange, unnatural impiousness of people who never address themselves to Allah nor prostrate toward the Holy City, impresses their simple minds with something akin to the feeling entertained among certain of ourselves toward extra dare-devil characters, and they seem to take a deeper and kindlier interest in me than ever.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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His prophetic spirit foretold to him that the impiousness of the sons he would beget would make their death to be preferable to their life.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
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Satan, in impious mimicry of God's heavenly throne, sets up his earthly throne (Re 4: 2).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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About the year 1830 there appeared, in one of the States of the American Union bordering on Kentucky, an impostor who declared that he was the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, and that he had reappeared on earth to recall the impious, the unbelieving, and sinners to their duty.
Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods
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The life of Athanasius was consumed in irreconcilable opposition to the impious madness of the Arians; 61 but he defended above twenty years the
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Everywhere else St. Jerome teaches that the punishment of the devils and of the impious, that is of those who have not come to the Faith, shall be eternal.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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`I need to wash the taste of these impious demands out of my mouth.
A TIME OF WAR
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Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and blasphemous, but incomprehensible.
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With these examples before their eyes, they could not await an impious and ferocious enemy but for the purpose of fighting him: the rest must necessarily shun his approach with horror, if they would save themselves in this life and in the next: obedience, honour, religion, fear, every thing in short enjoined them to flee, with all that they could carry off.
History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812
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But what so impudent, so arrogant, so unblushingly disregardful of propriety, as that he should endeavour to select his victim from such a family as the Pallisers, and that he should lay his impious hand on the very daughter of the Duke of
The Duke's Children
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But before I leave what I call the desponding epoch of my schoolboy days, I must not omit to mention a species of impious barbarity, that had well-nigh alienated my heart for ever from religion, and which made me for the time detest the very name of church.
Rattlin the Reefer
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There are a hundred religions on earth which all condemn us if we believe your dogmas, which they call impious and absurd; why, therefore, not examine these dogmas?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Being only a "cookee," [AA] he had no person to wait upon him, but was obliged to submit to the distressing operation of feeding himself in the manner proscribed by the superstitious ordinance; and he was told by the tohunga, or priest, that if he presumed to put one finger to his mouth before he had completed the work he was about, the atua (divinity) would certainly punish his impious contempt, by getting into his stomach before his time, and eating him out of the world.
John Rutherford, the White Chief
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Drag Me to Hell is uninterested in the existence or nonexistence of demons; it is merely interested in mocking them, a not altogether impious enterprise: the humorous devil character -- along with the humorous mummery used to dispel him -- appears in the Book of Tobit.
Movie Review: Drag Me to Hell
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Money has shown men how to practise villainy, and taught them impiousness in every action!
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American Union bordering on Kentucky, an impostor who declared that he was the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, and that he had reappeared on earth to recall the impious, the unbelieving, and sinners to their duty.
The Golden Bough
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Behold that [city] Babylon, haughty in the flower and pride of impiousness, and its inhabitants completely given over to sin of every description.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Moreover, as we were saying before, he grows worse from having power: he becomes and is of necessity more jealous, more faithless, more unjust, more friendless, more impious, than he was at first; he is the purveyor and cherisher of every sort of vice, and the consequence is that he is supremely miserable, and that he makes everybody else as miserable as himself.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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For though one should speak ten thousand words well, if there happen to be one little word displeasing to you, because not sufficiently intelligible or accurate, you make no account of the many good words, but lay hold of the little word, and are very zealous in setting it up as something impious and guilty; in order that, when you are judged with the very same judgment by God, you may have a much heavier account to render for your great audacities, whether evil actions, or bad interpretations which you obtain by falsifying the truth.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Religious revivals may occur from time to time, particularly when the relatively impious find that their cultural identity under attack.
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`I need to wash the taste of these impious demands out of my mouth.
A TIME OF WAR
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impious toward one's parents
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Many a time I have stood on the broken end, where the discouraged labourers had left their very shovels and picks and trucks and had apparently fled in dismay, as if convicted of the impiousness of trying to fill the Bottomless Pit.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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And this infernal monster, Popery, is now rearing his impious head again in this long-favoured country, and will, I fear, soon repeat his diabolical cruelties upon the Church of God.
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`If it skirts the edge of impious things, as this other talk's done, then I shan't answer it.
A TIME OF WAR
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Who, but an impious scorner, dares thus strive with his Maker, and mutilate HIS IMAGE, and blaspheme the Holy One, who saith, "_Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto_ ME.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Furthermore, so long as human greatness is not a pronounced feature in their religious beliefs, one may rightfully conclude that their crude religious agencies, rioting in impiousness and revelling in infamy, can never function that moral and spiritual potency required to regenerate the negro race.
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
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Exilius, for Shame die, let Despair kill thee, thou deservest no less Punishment, for harbouring a Thought so arrogant, or rather impious, in daring to love one who ought only to be belov'd by a King or a Deity.
Exilius
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Such piety is the salvation of families and states, just as the impious, which is unpleasing to the gods, is their ruin and destruction.
Euthyphro
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These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however like a few in England who are a century behindhand, thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains.
A brief essay on the general attitude of common folks towards the natural world inspired by a passage in a book by Charles Darwin, Esq.
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They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things.
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The religious zealots see rai music as the apotheosis of a secular culture they consider lewd and impious.
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Apol. xxxv., “publici hostes”; xxxvii., “hostes maluistis vocare generis humani Christianos” (you prefer to call Christians the enemies of the human race); Minuc., x., “pravae religionis obscuritas”; viii., “homines deploratae, inlicitae ac desperatae factionis” (reprobate characters, belonging to an unlawful and desperate faction); “plebs profanae coniurationis”; ix., “sacraria taeterrima impiae citionis” (abominable shrines of an impious assembly); “eruenda et execranda consensio” (a confederacy to be rooted out and detested).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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At any moment, he thought, he would be recognized as an outsider, an impious interloper with no business here.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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Scotland; this second notch was made in the rib-bone of an impious villain, the boldest and best soldier that upheld the prelatic cause at
Old Mortality
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Indeed, as a rule, the blessing of the impious is a curse, wherefore Rebekah remained barren for years.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
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During the French Revolution, for example, blasphemy against the state and nation began to replace blasphemy against God as French society reinvented the meaning of impious speech for the cause of liberty.
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These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however (like a few in England who are a century behindhand), thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains.
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And it is only insofar as such prophecies were ratified by catastrophes (as, indeed, was the case from Elijah to Jeremiah) that historical events acquired religious significance; i.e., that they clearly appeared as punishments inflicted by the Lord in return for the impiousness of Israel.
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This aptly named impious herb is a useful image for his discussion of the impious disrespect of clerical hierarchy that he claims is concomitant with an improper relationship with God.
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-- Cecilia! have I been a murmurer at the decrees of providence? have I been an impious repiner when heaven has poured down its wrath upon my head? if not, why am I marked out for divine vengeance? before I lose my senses, or my life, for both I cannot retain, hear the last act of your friend's tragic story.
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
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We don't want no impiousness at this here shuckin ', Tim," observed
The Miller Of Old Church
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Those who immediately forged and promoted that lie of his being stolen away were justly given up to strong delusions to believe it, and not suffered to be undeceived by his being shown to all the people; and so much the greater shall be the blessedness of those who have not seen, and yet have believed -- Nec ille se in vulgus edixit, ne impii errore, liberarentur; ut et fides non praemio mediocri destinato difficultate constaret -- He showed not himself to the people at large, lest the impious among them should have been forthwith loosed from their error, and that faith, the reward of which is so ample, might be exercised with a degree of difficulty.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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[_apocatastasis_] will take place of demons and impious men, let him be anathema.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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His expression displayed no emotion, but his step seemed to harbor an impious energy that didn’t respect funerals.
Walls of Silence
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Return a victor!" shout the hosts, and Aïda, carried away by her love, joins in the cry; but, left alone, she reproaches herself for impiousness in uttering words which imply a wish for the destruction of her country, her father, and her kinsmen.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Now kesil signifies in Hebrew "impious", adjectives expressive of the stupid criminality which belongs to the legendary character of giants; and the stars of Orion irresistibly suggest a huge figure striding across the sky.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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If the slogan-makers really are maliciously and "subliminally" calling for prayers for the death of our President, they're worse than ignorant or impious.
The Moderate Voice
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To these professed atheists, we may well add that impious and carnal crew of worldly-minded men, impenitent sinners, that go to hell in a lethargy, or in a dream; who though they be professed
Anatomy of Melancholy
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A man who never ventured one impious word or deed against the gods we worship, but whose whole language concerning them, and his every act, closely coincided, word for word, and deed for deed, with all we deem distinctive of devoutest piety.
Memorabilia
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Their prayers and sermons excited the people against the impious Barbarians; and the patriarch is accused of declaring, that the faithful might obtain the redemption of all their sins by the extirpation of the schismatics.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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We remember several scenes where Jesus challenges the impiousness of various priests.
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At any moment, he thought, he would be recognized as an outsider, an impious interloper with no business here.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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Where Livy seeks to build a seamless account of Rome's noble and quasi-mythological heritage, Augustine seeks to bring to light the logical contradictions, cruelty, and impiousness of pagan Rome.