pious

pious
    adj 1: having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity;
           "pious readings" [ant: {impious}]
    

Pious \Pi"ous\, a. [L. pius: cf. F. pieux.]
   1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential;
      dutiful; religious; devout; godly. "Pious hearts."
      --Milton. "Pious poetry." --Johnson.
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            Where was the martial brother's pious care? --Pope.
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   2. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by
      mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.
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   Syn: Godly; devout; religious; righteous.
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76 Moby Thesaurus words for "pious":
      Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, God-fearing, Tartuffian,
      Tartuffish, adoring, affected, angelic, assured, believing,
      canting, certain, confident, convinced, cultish, cultist,
      cultistic, dedicated, devoted, devout, dogmatic, doubtless,
      dutiful, faithful, false, fideistic, fraudulent, godlike, godly,
      good, goody, goody-goody, holier-than-thou, holy, hypocritical,
      impressed with, insincere, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, moral,
      oily, persuaded, pharisaic, pietistic, pistic, positive, prayerful,
      pretended, priestly, religious, reverent, reverential,
      right-minded, saintly, sanctified, sanctimonious, satisfied,
      secure, self-righteous, seraphic, smarmy, sniveling, sold on,
      solemn, spiritual, sure, theistic, unctuous, under the impression,
      undoubtful, undoubting, venerational, venerative, virtuous,
      worshipful