Definition of impiety in English:

impiety

nounPlural impieties ɪmˈpʌɪɪtiɪmˈpaɪədi

mass noun

Lack of piety or reverence.
（尤指对神的）不虔诚，不恭敬
he blamed the fall of the city on the impiety of the people
他把城市的沦陷归咎于人民的不虔诚。
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- We are to renounce impiety and worldly passions.
- And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading.
- 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.
- Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth.
- He was tried for impiety, but acquitted by the Athenian jury.
- 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.
- Within a remarkably short time, it was realized that the family was failing to control the impiety and insubordination of the younger generation.
- It was probably in 1462 that he arrived in Rome, where he aroused papal wrath for supposed impieties and served two terms in prison before bouncing back into favour, and obtaining his librarianship, after writing some papal biographies.
- There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good.
- 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’.
- Radical impiety is not an answer any more than orthodoxy.
- Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as the appearance of impiety was, once upon a time.
- 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.
- We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
godlessness, ungodliness, unholiness, irreligion, sinfulness, sin, vice, immorality, unrighteousness, sacrilege, profaneness, irreverence, disrespect
apostasy, atheism, agnosticism, paganism, heathenism, non-belief, disbelief, unbelief, scepticism, doubt
sin, transgression, wrongdoing, evil-doing, wrong, misdeed, misdemeanour, bad deed, act of wickedness, immoral act, fall from grace
profanity, blasphemy

Origin

Middle English: from Old French impiete or Latin impietas, from impius 'impious'.

Rhymes

anxiety, contrariety, dubiety, impropriety, inebriety, notoriety, piety, satiety, sobriety, ubiety, variety

Definition of impiety in US English:

impiety

nounimˈpīədēɪmˈpaɪədi

Lack of piety or reverence, especially for a god.
（尤指对神的）不虔诚，不恭敬
he blamed the fall of the city on the impiety of the people
他把城市的沦陷归咎于人民的不虔诚。
one impiety will cost me my eternity in Paradise
一次不敬神就会让我付出不能在天堂里永生的代价。
Example sentencesExamples
- 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?
- Radical impiety is not an answer any more than orthodoxy.
- And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading.
- We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We are to renounce impiety and worldly passions.
- 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.
- There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good.
- 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.
- 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’.
- Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as the appearance of impiety was, once upon a time.
- 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.
- It was probably in 1462 that he arrived in Rome, where he aroused papal wrath for supposed impieties and served two terms in prison before bouncing back into favour, and obtaining his librarianship, after writing some papal biographies.
- Within a remarkably short time, it was realized that the family was failing to control the impiety and insubordination of the younger generation.
- 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.
- Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth.
- He was tried for impiety, but acquitted by the Athenian jury.
- 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.
Synonyms
godlessness, ungodliness, unholiness, irreligion, sinfulness, sin, vice, immorality, unrighteousness, sacrilege, profaneness, irreverence, disrespect
sin, transgression, wrongdoing, evil-doing, wrong, misdeed, misdemeanour, bad deed, act of wickedness, immoral act, fall from grace

Origin

Middle English: from Old French impiete or Latin impietas, from impius ‘impious’.

单词	impiety
释义	Definition of impiety in English: impiety nounPlural impieties ɪmˈpʌɪɪtiɪmˈpaɪədi mass noun Lack of piety or reverence. （尤指对神的）不虔诚，不恭敬 he blamed the fall of the city on the impiety of the people 他把城市的沦陷归咎于人民的不虔诚。 Example sentencesExamples 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. 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. 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? We are to renounce impiety and worldly passions. And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading. 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. Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth. He was tried for impiety, but acquitted by the Athenian jury. 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. Within a remarkably short time, it was realized that the family was failing to control the impiety and insubordination of the younger generation. It was probably in 1462 that he arrived in Rome, where he aroused papal wrath for supposed impieties and served two terms in prison before bouncing back into favour, and obtaining his librarianship, after writing some papal biographies. There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good. 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’. Radical impiety is not an answer any more than orthodoxy. Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as the appearance of impiety was, once upon a time. 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. We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist. 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. 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. 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. Synonyms godlessness, ungodliness, unholiness, irreligion, sinfulness, sin, vice, immorality, unrighteousness, sacrilege, profaneness, irreverence, disrespect apostasy, atheism, agnosticism, paganism, heathenism, non-belief, disbelief, unbelief, scepticism, doubt sin, transgression, wrongdoing, evil-doing, wrong, misdeed, misdemeanour, bad deed, act of wickedness, immoral act, fall from grace profanity, blasphemy Origin Middle English: from Old French impiete or Latin impietas, from impius 'impious'. Rhymes anxiety, contrariety, dubiety, impropriety, inebriety, notoriety, piety, satiety, sobriety, ubiety, variety Definition of impiety in US English: impiety nounimˈpīədēɪmˈpaɪədi Lack of piety or reverence, especially for a god. （尤指对神的）不虔诚，不恭敬 he blamed the fall of the city on the impiety of the people 他把城市的沦陷归咎于人民的不虔诚。 one impiety will cost me my eternity in Paradise 一次不敬神就会让我付出不能在天堂里永生的代价。 Example sentencesExamples 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? Radical impiety is not an answer any more than orthodoxy. And for all of his profane honesty and candid impiety, this wicked preacher keeps me reading. We are disturbed both by the traditional impiety of corpse desecration and the modern idea of the overreaching scientist. 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. 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. 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. We are to renounce impiety and worldly passions. 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. There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good. 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. 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’. Work itself, not to mention hard work, is now shunned as radically as the appearance of impiety was, once upon a time. 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. It was probably in 1462 that he arrived in Rome, where he aroused papal wrath for supposed impieties and served two terms in prison before bouncing back into favour, and obtaining his librarianship, after writing some papal biographies. Within a remarkably short time, it was realized that the family was failing to control the impiety and insubordination of the younger generation. 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. Traditionally, of course, pluralism in religious matters was deemed a sign of impiety and indifference to God's truth. He was tried for impiety, but acquitted by the Athenian jury. 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. Synonyms godlessness, ungodliness, unholiness, irreligion, sinfulness, sin, vice, immorality, unrighteousness, sacrilege, profaneness, irreverence, disrespect sin, transgression, wrongdoing, evil-doing, wrong, misdeed, misdemeanour, bad deed, act of wickedness, immoral act, fall from grace Origin Middle English: from Old French impiete or Latin impietas, from impius ‘impious’.
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