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Перевод: impiety

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отсутствие благочестия; отсутствие набожности; непочтительность ; неуважение
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Тезаурус:

1. It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn, as Newton did, "the impiety and profaneness" of their unregenerate days; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa, on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous.
2. At this shocking impiety, the tumult died away.
3. When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC, there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea, in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before.
4. A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent (which without impiety I cannot deny that I possess) will go to seed, if he always remains in the same place.
5. He had "mounted to the top of impiety", even though he had known that "the minister is the people's Looking-glass".
6. It created a tremendous sensation; but a court fined the poet and banned the piece from further production; the legal ground was probably "impiety" in introducing a modern and a jarring note on a sacred occasion.
7. But another European country, Spain, did seek to conquer England, in 1588; and it was encouraged by the dramatic "Address to the Captains and Men on the Armada", which promised the sailors the aid of the saints of England, John Fisher, Thomas More and Edmund Campion, and above all "The blessed and innocent Mary queen of Scotland, who, still fresh from her sacrifice, bears copious and abounding witness to the cruelty and impiety of this Elizabeth and directs her shafts against her."
8. All around prevails a world of impiety and immorality.
9. Perhaps she should be reading about infidelity instead of impiety.
10. The one event that has done more than any other to damage the reputation of Athenian democracy is, of course, the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC for impiety and corrupting the young.
11. He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety and general degeneracy of the people, who had been so foolish as to ally themselves with Christians in the first place.
12. Apart from jealousy, he might have established the custom; but as it was, somebody raised, as in the case of Phrynichos (p. 159), the cry of "impiety".
13. As long ago as Plato it was believed, "if a person be guilty of impiety let him be punished with death."