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Definition of Impiously
1. Adverb. In an impious manner. "The young members challenged their leader impiously"
Definition of Impiously
1. Adverb. In an impious manner; profanely; wickedly. ¹
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Definition of Impiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impiously
Literary usage of Impiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"... while they presumptuously, if not impiously, deny that title to the evangelical
Churches planted throughout the world, whose doctrine is no less pure ..."
2. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1834)
"... that, if men should live according to their proper and natural consequences,
they would live impiously, yet in every one of these there are persons so ..."
3. Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk Lore (1859)
"She could give me no reasons, but abundant examples of couples who had impiously
disregarded the custom, and had, in Katie's phraseology, " gane aw wrang" ..."
4. Old Mortality by Walter Scott (1878)
"... the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence,
by raising wind for your ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... the keys of the Church by impiously imitating the ceremony of excommunication.
toothed, furrowed in her face, having her lips trembling wilh the palsy, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Colonel Maceroni by Francis Maceroni (1838)
"... blind, having escaped the dangers of the battle-field, of the burning deserts,
and of the sea, were impiously assassinated in the ports of Sicily. ..."
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