Impious 1100 Words You Need Week 41 Day 3

Impious 1100 Words You Need Week 41 Day 3

/ˈɪm.pi.əs/ (adj)

lacking piety or reverence, showing lack of religious respect, wicked, godless, ungodly, unholy, irreligious, sinful, immoral, unrighteous, sacrilegious, profane, blasphemous, apostate, atheistic, agnostic, pagan, faithless, irreverent

First, the demonstrations suggest that Euthyphro does not have the kind of understanding of what the pious is that would warrant his invoking the pious in life-and-death situations, or in any political or legal proceeding. Euthyphro wants to bring his father up on charges that would have the death penalty if the father is convicted, and Euthyphro’s reasons for doing this are that he is doing the pious thing and his father has done something impious. Therefore it is important for E. to see that he has not got as good a grasp of the nature of piety as he thinks.

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Antonym: pious

Noun: impiety, impiousness

Adverb: impiously