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Vinony

impiety

noun

  1. lack of proper respect for something considered sacred
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Old French impieté, from Latin impietas, from in- (“not”) + pietas (“piety”), from pius (“pious, devout”) + -tās (“-ty, -dom”). By surface analysis, impious + -ety.

  1. The state of being impious.
  2. An impious act.

    “[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]: […]”

  3. The lack of respect for a god or something sacred.