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The word Pious is to be taken in the sense of the Latin pia, i.e., devoted or dedicated to God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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One corner was sucked up by a sculpture entitled The Pious Enigma Goes Shopping, which featured an enthroned commercial hair dryer with colored, blinking, musical lights in the lid.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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One corner was sucked up by a sculpture entitled The Pious Enigma Goes Shopping, which featured an enthroned commercial hair dryer with colored, blinking, musical lights in the lid.
Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009
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I just picked up a book entitled My Pious friends and Drunken Companions and Mor
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In 1614 Paul V confided to the congregation the care of the so-called Pious Schools.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Louis the Pious was the patron of the Irish geographer Dicuil, Lothair II stood in a similar relation to the Irish poet and Scribe Sedulius, founder of the school at Liège, and Charles the Bald equalled his grandfather in his affectionate esteem for the Irish teachers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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For a long time Old and New Spain contributed liberally to what was known as the Pious Fund of California.
In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876
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The web video, titled "Pious Baloney," went up on YouTube on Jan. 9 and is part of a new Gingrich campaign site called No 'abortion pills' here
USATODAY.com News 2012
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II. and the Elector Palatine Frederic III., called the Pious, showed it openly; when the Duke of Anjou, elected King of Poland, went through
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 1830
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Fraderic IN. called the Pious, duke of Bavaria, duke of Simmeren, count palatine of the Rhine, and elector, was eldeft fon of John II. duke of Simmeren,.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780
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