impiety

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
impiety
    n 1: unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god
         [syn: {impiety}, {impiousness}] [ant: {piety}, {piousness}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impiety \Im*pi"e*ty\ ([i^]m*p[imac]"[-e]*t[y^]), n.; pl.
   {Impieties} ([i^]m*p[imac]"[-e]*t[i^]z). [L. impietas, fr.
   impius impious; cf. F. impi['e]t['e]. See {Impious},
   {Piety}.]
   1. The quality of being impious; lack of piety; irreverence
      toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.
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   2. An impious act; an act of wickedness.
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            Those impieties for the which they are now visited.
                                                  --Shak.

   Syn: Ungodliness; irreligion; unrighteousness; sinfulness;
        profaneness; wickedness; godlessness.
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from The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
IMPIETY, n.  Your irreverence toward my deity.
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "impiety":
      blasphemousness, blasphemy, desecration, godlessness, irreligion,
      profanation, profaneness, profanity, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness,
      sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness,
      ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness,
      wickedness

    

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