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French pieté piety, pity, from Old French, from [[Latin]] pietat-, pietas, from pius [[dutiful]], pious ...[expressed]] a [[complex]], highly valued [[Roman]] [[virtue]]; a man with pietas respected his [[responsibilities]] to other people, [[gods]] and [[entities

...of principles handed down from "the beginning" (see also [[pietas (virtue)|pietas]]). According to Arendt, this source of authority was rediscovered in the c