English to French Meaning of impious - impie


Impious :
impie
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Definitions of impious in English
Adjective
Examples of impious in English
(1) This aptly named impious herb is a useful image for his discussion of the impious disrespect of clerical hierarchy that he claims is concomitant with an improper relationship with God.(2) Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and blasphemous, but incomprehensible.(3) During the French Revolution, for example, blasphemy against the state and nation began to replace blasphemy against God as French society reinvented the meaning of impious speech for the cause of liberty.(4) The lares, penates and relics of our sacred ancestors have been spared the impious axe of Jacobin tyranny.(5) Does that mean, then, that she and her supporters are impious and immoral?(6) And this infernal monster, Popery, is now rearing his impious head again in this long-favoured country, and will, I fear, soon repeat his diabolical cruelties upon the Church of God.(7) But it's the more freewheeling entries that best suggest something else to treasure: how impiously most of these '60s-based writers conceived the craft of criticism.(8) Where Livy seeks to build a seamless account of Rome's noble and quasi-mythological heritage, Augustine seeks to bring to light the logical contradictions, cruelty, and impiousness of pagan Rome.(9) After Constantine, Christianity was used to justify war upon pagans and those decried as having acted impiously .(10) And it is only insofar as such prophecies were ratified by catastrophes (as, indeed, was the case from Elijah to Jeremiah) that historical events acquired religious significance; i.e., that they clearly appeared as punishments inflicted by the Lord in return for the impiousness of Israel.(11) We remember several scenes where Jesus challenges the impiousness of various priests.(12) And so death is meted out to all those who rebel against Nature impiously , because they know the things that are.(13) Money has shown men how to practise villainy, and taught them impiousness in every action!(14) The impiousness of the fishwife's final ambition links her with Marlowe's Faustus as well as with Lady Macbeth.(15) It's blasphemy to speak impiously against (to rail, to vilify, to revile) God, the Holy Spirit.(16) Do not permit them to return or think of returning again to the place which they so impiously and sacrilegiously destroyed, lest worse may come.
(1) be impetuous ::
être impétueux
Synonyms
Adjective
1. godless ::
impie
2. ungodly ::
impie
3. unholy ::
impie
4. irreligious ::
irréligieux
5. sinful ::
coupable
6. wicked ::
méchant
7. immoral ::
immoral
8. unrighteous ::
impie
10. heretical ::
hérétique
11. profane ::
profane
12. blasphemous ::
blasphématoire
13. irreverent ::
irrévérencieux
14. apostate ::
apostat
16. agnostic ::
agnostique
17. pagan ::
païen
18. heathen ::
païen
19. faithless ::
déloyal
21. unbelieving ::
incrédule
22. nullifidian ::
nullifidian
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