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The [[word]] [[piety]] comes from the [[Latin]] word pietas, the noun form of the adjective pius (which means "devout" or "[[good]]"). Pietas in [[traditional]] Latin usage [[expressed]] a [[complex]], highly valued [[Roman]] [[virtue]]; a man with pietas respected his [[responsibilities]] to other people, [[gods]] and [[entities]] (such as the [[state]]), and [[understood]] his place in [[society]] with [[respect]] to others. That doesn't mean others will [[understand]] it. Iits strictest sense it was the sort of [[love]] a son ought to have for his [[father]].

The [[word]] [[piety]] comes from the [[Latin]] word pietas, the noun form of the adjective pius (which means "devout" or "[[good]]"). Pietas in [[traditional]] Latin usage [[expressed]] a [[complex]], highly valued [[Roman]] [[virtue]]; a man with pietas respected his [[responsibilities]] to other people, [[gods]] and [[entities]] (such as the [[state]]), and [[understood]] his place in [[society]] with [[respect]] to others. That doesn't mean others will [[understand]] it. Iits strictest sense it was the sort of [[love]] a son ought to have for his [[father]].

The [[Latin]] term in turn may derive from "Piodasses", an ancient [[Greek]] transliteration of the Indic Prakrit term "Piyadasi", [[meaning]] "beloved of the [[Gods]]", a term by which the Indian Maurya Emperor [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka Ashoka] the Great referred to himself in the Edicts of Ashoka (3rd century BC).

The [[Latin]] term in turn may derive from "Piodasses", an ancient [[Greek]] transliteration of the Indic Prakrit term "Piyadasi", [[meaning]] "beloved of the [[Gods]]", a term by which the Indian Maurya Emperor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka Ashoka] the Great referred to himself in the Edicts of Ashoka (3rd century BC).

*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1579]

*Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Century 1579]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1 : the [[quality]] or [[state]] of being pious: as a : [[fidelity]] to [[natural]] [[obligations]] (as to [[parents]])  

*1 : the [[quality]] or [[state]] of being pious: as a : [[fidelity]] to [[natural]] [[obligations]] (as to [[parents]])