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| devout |
earnestly devoted to religion; pious. [1/3 definitions] |
| God-fearing |
(sometimes l.c.) very religious; devout; pious. [1/2 definitions] |
| godly |
characterized by reverence and love for God and respect for the ethical teachings of scripture; pious; devout. |
| holily |
in a pious or sacred manner; devoutly. |
| piety |
a pious act, remark, thought, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| sanctified |
offensively, ostentatiously, or falsely pious; sanctimonious. [1/2 definitions] |
| sanctimonious |
pretending to be pious or righteous; assuming an air of holiness or moral superiority. |
| self-righteous |
having or marked by confidence or pride in the correctness of one's beliefs or moral conduct, often combined with a pious intolerance of the beliefs of others. |
| Tobit |
in the Apocrypha, a pious exiled Hebrew who is cured of blindness by an angel of God. [1/2 definitions] |
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