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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
piety /ˈpʌɪəti/

▶noun (pl. pieties) the quality of being pious or reverent.

■ a belief accepted with unthinking conventional reverence.

– origin C16: from OFr. piete, from L. pietas ‘dutifulness’, from pius (see pious).

'piety' also found in these Oxford entries:

glory - impiety - impious - maulana - pietism - piteous - pity - Taoism

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