Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryReverence and devotion to God. · Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country. · A devout or otherwise laudable act, thought, or statement. · A platitude that may be empty or at least facile and undercommitted.
From Middle English piete, borrowed from Middle French pieté, from Latin pietās. See also the doublets pietà and pity. By surface analysis, pious + -ety.
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