piously

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pewH-

Proto-Italic *pīosder.

Latin piusbor.

English pious

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English piously

From pious + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪəsli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

piously (comparative more piously, superlative most piously)

1. in a pious manner
   • 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues:

     it is a marvel that any man, virtuously and piously disposed, should be so partially and zealously affected in a cause that has neither truth nor any honest usefulness in it.

   • 1860, William Carleton, Tales & Stories of the Irish Peasantry‎^[1]:

     ...Balgruntie was bent on makin' the attempt, especially after he heard that the castle was well vittled, an' indeed he was meritoriously joined by his men, who piously licked their lips on hearin' of such glad tidin's.

   • 2016, John Kerrigan, Shakespeare's Binding Language‎^[2], page 412:

     The king seals his faith in Cranmer with what is piously not quite an oath (a more Henrician than Protestant one): 'God's blest mother, | I swear he is true-hearted' (154–5).

Derived terms

• unpiously

Translations

in a pious manner

• Esperanto: pie (eo)
• Finnish: hurskaasti (fi)
• French: pieusement (fr)
• Georgian: ღვთისმოსავად (ɣvtismosavad)
• Greek: ευλαβικώς (el) (evlavikós)
• Italian: piamente (it)
• Latin: sacrātē
• Middle English: gostly
• Norman: pieusement
• Portuguese: piamente
• Russian: на́божно (ru) (nábožno)
• Sanskrit: सत्कृत्य (sa) (satkṛtya)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: на́божно

  Latin: nábožno (sh)

• Spanish: piadosamente
• Turkish: dindarca

Anagrams

• soupily