Hypertext Webster Gateway: "impiety"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Impiety \Im*pi"e*ty\, n.; pl. {Impieties}. [L. impietas, fr.
impius impious; cf. F. impi['e]t['e]. See {Impious},
{Piety}.]
1. The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence
toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.
2. An impious act; an act of wickednes.
Those impieties for the which they are now visited.
--Shak.
Syn: Ungodliness; irreligion; unrighteousness; sinfulness;
profaneness; wickedness; godlessness.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
impiety
n : unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god [syn:
{impiousness}] [ant: {piety}]
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