impious
adj/ˈɪmpi.əs/ · /ɪmˈpaɪəs/
Etymology From Latin impius.
1
Not pious.
- […] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 114, column 2:
2
Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
- […] surfaces too great to belong to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs.1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume XI, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- impiously, impiousness
- Related terms
- impiety