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• n  righteousness by virtue of being pious

• Given that somewhat hedonistic reputation, Sarkozy's expression of newfound piousness led author and famed social commentator Bernard-Herni Lvy to muse in the weekly Le Point over .
• Attiya believes that such pockets of extreme piousness and intolerance will spread more widely.
• But please spare me the piousness.

• piety

• impiety

Quotes

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• Muqtada al-Sadr in International Herald Tribune
  It is aa period for rehabilitation, reformation and rearrangement. So help me with your hard work and piousness,al-Sadr said in the leaflet.
• Michael Kinsley in Seattle Times
  Michael Kinsley wrote: "If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself."