His gentle pious-hearted Mother, ever watching over him in all outward changes, and assiduously keeping human pieties and good affections alive in him, was probably the best counteracting element in his lot.
It was as though all the pietiesof life, all the sacred assumptions and self-surrenders at the root of it, were shaken, outraged by the girl's tone.
Dear tender soul, with all its old-world fidelities and pieties pure and unimpaired!
It was, perhaps, his genius which made the hearth-divinity preside over the little polity and confuse and identify for ever the pieties of the home with the pieties of citizenship.
For Dominic, with the inherent pieties of his Latin and Celtic blood, had none of that contemptuous superiority in regard of his near relations so common to male creatures of the Protestant persuasion and Anglo-Saxon race.
Of obedience to the dictates of natural religion, and faithful practice of the pieties of it, Dominic Iglesias had, all his life, been a remarkable if unconscious exponent.
These pietiesand longings, which have their roots in a rude pagan past before the dawn of history, were destined to prolong their existence far into Christian times.
The strength and virtue of the Latin race lay, not in religion or philosophy, but in the family pieties and devotion to the State.
But do we need to remind ourselves how long a life the form of ancient pieties may have, even when the faith which gave birth to them has become dim and faint?
The old paganism of Rome did indeed foster certain ancestral pieties which were the salt of the Roman character.
The Cross was the putting of the Love of God, of the Blood of Christ, into the old fundamental pieties of the human heart, the realising by Jesus in Himself of the dearest truths about God.
These are the fundamental pieties of the soul; and no elaborateness of doctrine can compensate for the loss of fresh convictions of their truth.
The pieties of kindred were as strong in her as in any heart that ever beat, but respect for them Could not constrain her to a course which opposed that higher injunction.
The people who deal in such theories are endeavouring to betray the dead of their own race and the noble pieties and desperate courage of those who made them what they are.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pieties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
