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pieta

NOUN
  1. a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead body of Jesus

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  • Sicuti et Augustinus in lib. de civitate Dei (xviii. 38) commemorat, in libris Regum adduci Prophetarum quorundam nomina et libros, sed addit, hos non esse in canone, ac sufficere ad pietatem eos libros, quos habemus. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • Quando eorum Pietas et Providentia, in Posteris suis relucent. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
  • In another, he reverentially rubbed loaves of bread across lithographic stones while creating a print depicting the pieta.
  • ‘métier’ and ‘ministère’; from ‘parabola’, ‘parole’ and ‘parabole’; from ‘peregrinus’, ‘pélerin’ and ‘pérégrin’; from ‘factio’, ‘façon’ and ‘faction’, and it has now adopted ‘factio’ in a third shape, that is, in our English ‘fashion’; from ‘pietas’, ‘pitié’ and English Past and Present
  • This leads to Ovid's request: atque utinam possis, et detur amicius aruum, remque tuam ponas in meliore loco! quod quoniam in dis est, tempta lenire precando numina perpetua quae pietate colis. The Last Poems of Ovid
  • There is a second Latin inscription at eye level: "Vestra locum ut pietas aliquem post reddat in astris has dedit in terris Corycius statuas. Archive 2009-08-01
  • As the music turns ethereal, the hero with special powers, who has sacrificed himself in a cross-like pose for the greater good, is passed back, in pieta fashion, by the passengers, who lay him down.
  • These tales betray a renewed interest in familial pietas in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and its connection to Christian piety, and they reflect contemporary pastoral concerns. 6 The attention to mother and child also parallels and, as we shall see, derives in a variety of ways from the twelfth - and thirteenth-century tendencies to humanize Christ and his Mother. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • There is a second Latin inscription at eye level: "Vestra locum ut pietas aliquem post reddat in astris has dedit in terris Corycius statuas. The Pier of Goritz
  • Pieta's voice was of a contralto color, and though not very strong, it was maidenly and soft.
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