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Перевод: pious
[прилагательное] набожный; благочестивый; религиозный; ханжеский
Тезаурус:
- 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.
- But these were merely pious hopes.
- "People did think the King acted rashly but there were other prophecies, not just pious speculation.
- 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".
- They are not merely abstract theory or pious statements of intent that look good posted on the staff notice board.
- 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.
- Some pastors were diverting into a pious channel the unseemly activity associated with "wakes", at which strong liquor was consumed.
- Yet in the face of this particular story such sentiments can seem like pious claptrap.
- Censorship, the pious say, is not involved, only federal funding of art offensive to the majority.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
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