Definitions for impieties

impieties im·pi·e·ty

Spelling: [im-pahy-i-tee]
IPA: /ɪmˈpaɪ ɪ ti/

Impieties is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in impieties (eeiiimpst).

Definitions for impieties

noun

  1. lack of piety; lack of reverence for God or sacred things; irreverence.
  2. lack of dutifulness or respect.
  3. an impious act, practice, etc.

Origin of impieties

1300-50; Middle English impietie Latin impietās, equivalent to impi(us) impious + -etās, variant, after vowels, of -itās -ity

Examples for impieties

Magic, impiety, enchantments, are often the effects of a diseased imagination.

P.S. Bertrand Russell uses the word “impiety” in relation to luniks and further attempts and he is right.

Their spirit of profanation and impiety arrived at the extreme pitch.

I am sure, therefore, that you know the nature of piety and impiety.

Death or expulsion was the Athenian penalty for impiety (Telfy).

Which shows, Socrates, how little they know what the gods think about piety and impiety.

Will not the fear of impiety enable them to conquer that which many who were inferior to them have conquered? '

There are three causes of impiety, and from each of them spring impieties of two kinds, six in all.

Euthyphro replies, that 'Piety is what is dear to the gods, and impiety is what is not dear to them.'

In the Euthyphro, Socrates is awaiting his trial for impiety.

Word Value for impieties
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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