How do you use Impious in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like irreligious or godless, plus the exact meaning.
Impious in a sentence
Impious meaning
- Not pious.
- Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
Synonyms of Impious
Using Impious
- The main meaning on this page is: Not pious. | Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
- Useful related words include: irreligious, godless, irreverent, profane.
- In the example corpus, impious often appears in combinations such as: impious and, impious but, and impious.
Context around Impious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Impious
- In this selection, "impious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, frivolous, unjust, raises, dogma, impossible and war stand out and add context to how "impious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as unjust impious impossible harmful and blind and impious jews who. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "impious" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with impious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Joseph regarded his mother's religious policies as "unjust, impious, impossible, harmful and ridiculous". (14 words)
Harmony was not only considered frivolous, impious, and lascivious, but an obstruction to the audibility of the words. (18 words)
These impious, Diocletian was informed by members of the court, could only refer to the Christians of the empire. (19 words)
Socrates concludes that if Euthyphro's definition of piety is acceptable, then there must exist at least one thing that is both pious and impious (as it is both loved and hated by the gods) which Euthyphro admits is absurd. (40 words)
And so far from the assumption being less objectionable or less dangerous because the opinion is called immoral or impious, this is the case of all others in which it is most fatal. (33 words)
Ancient commentators were divided about whether the ambitious Olympias promulgated the story of Alexander's divine parentage, variously claiming that she had told Alexander, or that she dismissed the suggestion as impious. (32 words)
Example sentences (17)
A friendly attitude towards the Swiss at the Diet was something he later changed, calling Zwingli 's doctrine of the Lord's Supper "an impious dogma ".
Ancient commentators were divided about whether the ambitious Olympias promulgated the story of Alexander's divine parentage, variously claiming that she had told Alexander, or that she dismissed the suggestion as impious.
And so far from the assumption being less objectionable or less dangerous because the opinion is called immoral or impious, this is the case of all others in which it is most fatal.
By addressing “Belial and all his guilty lot,” (4Q286:2) they make it clear that he is not only impious, but also guilty of sins.
Harmony was not only considered frivolous, impious, and lascivious, but an obstruction to the audibility of the words.
Il Milione, the book he dictated on his return to Europe, was on its publication condemned by the Church as a collection of impious and improbable traveller's tales.
It is not the man who denies the gods worshipped by the multitude, who is impious, but he who affirms of the gods what the multitude believes about them.
Joseph regarded his mother's religious policies as "unjust, impious, impossible, harmful and ridiculous".
Satan raises 'impious war in Heav'n' (i 43) by leading a third of the angels in revolt against God.
Socrates concludes that if Euthyphro's definition of piety is acceptable, then there must exist at least one thing that is both pious and impious (as it is both loved and hated by the gods) which Euthyphro admits is absurd.
Specifically, the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: “failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introducing new deities”.
Stilicho's enemies later reproached him for having gained his victory by taking impious advantage of the great Christian festival.
The gods are immortal and blessed and men who ascribe any additional qualities that are alien to immortality and blessedness are, according to Epicurus, impious.
The manner in which it was executed may have been sufficient guarantee that its stipulations were not impious or illegal.
These impious, Diocletian was informed by members of the court, could only refer to the Christians of the empire.
This suggestion was followed by the ever-blind and impious Jews, who instituted the custom of annually shedding Christian blood in every province, in order that they might recover from their malady.
Virgil's Ulysses typifies his view of the Greeks: he is cunning but impious, and ultimately malicious and hedonistic.
Common combinations with impious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: