Complete Definition of "piosity"

English
Noun
piosity (uncountable)

#Affected or exaggerated piety.

Synonyms
sanctimoniousness

Quotations
2003: We have since / learned to scoff at all such drollery, at the stalls / rife with the junk of old piosity — John F. Deane, in Knock, from Manhandling the Deity, Carcanet, page 23

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