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 Translation for 'pious' from English to Bulgarian
религ.
pious {adj}
праведен
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Translation for 'pious' from English to Bulgarian

pious {adj}
праведенрелиг.
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  • Scholar Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg placed Hunna in the tradition of what she called the "domestic saint" or "holy housekeeper", pious and noble women in the Middle Ages, who like Hunna, conducted public roles such as founders and abbesses of convents, but whose "popular and local fame rested on her pious activity of washing the clothing of the poor", from where she received her nickname.
  • In 1753, Pope Benedict XIV established the Pious Union of Our Lady of Good Counsel.
  • His sons were also pious, dedicated scholars and teachers.
  • Pious fraud is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine.
  • Orgon's family is up in arms because Orgon and his mother have fallen under the influence of Tartuffe, a pious fraud (and a vagrant prior to Orgon's help).

  • In the Euthyphro dialogue, Socrates asks Euthyphro, "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?
  • Her letters, diary extracts, short religious essays and pious verse were collected in a pamphlet and published by her husband immediately after her death in 1735, as "Reliquiate Turellae et Lachrymae Paternal", and reprinted in 1741 as "Memoirs of the Life and Death of the Pious and Ingenious Mrs.
  • In the years after these tragedies, Custine became very pious.
  • There was a pious man who bought a large meaty goat for the purpose of sacrificing it.
  • Nay Toe is known for being a pious Theravada Buddhist.

  • One criticism of this dialogue that was raised by Peter Geach is that the dilemma implies you must search for a definition that fits piety rather than work backwards by deciding pious acts (i.e. ...
  • Mahatma Gandhi's mother was a pious Pranami Hindu.
  • Archer, Blomberg and White are pious evangelicals, not liberal Bible scholars.
  • Minority Shi‘a communities, since the earliest days of Islam, were often forced to practice pious circumspection ("taqiyya") as an instinctive method of self-preservation and protection, an obligatory practice in the lands which became known as the realm of pious circumspection ("dār al-taqiyya").
  • The question between inherently wrong versus prohibited most likely originated in Plato's Socratic dialogue, Euthyphro, in which Socrates famously asked "Is the pious (τὸ ὅσιον) loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?

  • Thus "pious, observant", or "religious".
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