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Definition of Impious

Impious
Impious Im"pi*ous, a. [L. impius; pref. im- not + pius piou. See Pious.] Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. Syn: Impious, Irreligious, Profane. Usage: Irreligious is negative, impious and profane are positive. An indifferent man may be irreligious; a profane man is irreverent in speech and conduct; an impious man is wickedly and boldly defiant in the strongest sense. Profane also has the milder sense of secular. --C. J. Smith. -- Im"pi*ous*ly, adv. -- Im"pi*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Impious from wikipedia

- Impious is a Swedish thrash/death metal band. Swedish thrash/death metal band Impious was formed by Valle Adzic and Martin Åkesson in April 1994. The...
- Nabucco (Italian pronunciation: [naˈbukko], short for Nabucodonosor [naˌbukoˈdɔːnozor, -donoˈzɔr]; English: "Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera...
- entertainments, and the impious worship of pagan gods, is now dedicated to the sufferings of the martyrs purified from impious superstitions. Other Christian...
- Christians refused to cast a pinch of incense before the images of the gods, an impious act in their eyes. Impiety in ancient civilizations was a civic concern...
- objectionable or less dangerous because the opinion is called immoral or impious, this is the case of all others in which it is most fatal. Mill outlines...
- Athenian hermai were vandalized. Many people at the time thought such an impious act would threaten the success of the expedition. Though it was never proven...
- of one's religion, principles or cause; and from blasphemy, which is an impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things. Heresiology is the...
- "impious war" between Heaven and **** as civil war:[page needed] Paradise Lost is, among other things, a poem about civil war. Satan raises "impious war...
- Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry wrote: How can people not be in every way impious and atheistic who have apostatized from the customs of our ancestors through...
- It was first used as a term of censure roughly meaning "ungodly" or "impious". In the 5th century BCE, the word began to indicate more deliberate and...