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Meaning of Impiety | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The state of being impious.
    uncountable, usually
  2. An impious act.
    countable, usually
  3. The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.
    uncountable, usually

Equivalents

العربية المعصية
Български безбо́жие
Deutsch Pietätlosigkeit
Ελληνικά ανευλάβεια ανοσιότητα ασέβεια ασέβημα
Español impiedad
Français impiété
Gaeilge aindiagacht éagráifeacht
हिन्दी अधर्म
日本語 不信心
Lietuvių bedieviškumas
Русский непочти́тельность нечестивость
Svenska hänsynslöshet obarmhärtighet ogudaktighet

Examples

“[I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

Impig impignoration impimpi imping Impinge Impinged

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