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Перевод: pious

[прилагательное]
набожный; благочестивый; религиозный; ханжеский

Тезаурус:

1. It may have been largely thanks to Lewis that Williams became something of a cult figure, idolized by pious lady dons, aspirant mystics and others.
2. But these were merely pious hopes.
3. "People did think the King acted rashly but there were other prophecies, not just pious speculation.
4. At the end of the Principles , Berkeley reminds us that his "main drift and design" has been to "inspire my readers with a pious sense of the presence of God".
5. They are not merely abstract theory or pious statements of intent that look good posted on the staff notice board.
6. The difficulty is that the letters written at the time by Wordsworth, while full of references to "God" and "fortitude", can hardly be described as pious.
7. Some pastors were diverting into a pious channel the unseemly activity associated with "wakes", at which strong liquor was consumed.
8. Yet in the face of this particular story such sentiments can seem like pious claptrap.
9. Censorship, the pious say, is not involved, only federal funding of art offensive to the majority.
10. In 437 one of the last pagan aristocrats allowed himself to be converted on his deathbed by his conspicuously pious niece, perhaps from fear of less gentle pressure from the emperor.
11. But the tenth-century reformers based themselves, in Odo of Cluny's case very consciously, on the monastic dispensations of Benedict of Aniane (note the name), Louis the Pious's great monastic adviser (d. 822).
12. The kings and kinglets of barbarian Europe commonly knew their pedigrees back to Woden; and any lapse of memory - or the promotion of a man unprovided with ancestors - was quickly remedied by pious invention.
13. For some obscure reason, Tawell was convinced that installing himself in the company of such a simple and pious set would give him a veneer of respectability, however he conducted himself otherwise.