pietas

Her "emotion of maternal pietas" is eventually overcome by the "inconstant stubbornness of feminine fickleness," won over, as Judas had been, by the glitter of coins.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

St. Thomas calls pietas, and for which the nearest English equivalent phrase is "dutiful observance".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Here the offence is against a distinct virtue which the theologians call pietas, concerned with the demeanour reciprocally of parents and children.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Your life is touched by a certain 'pietas', or piety; perhaps you are even a Stoic.

2005/04 - 2005/05 Zoe Brain 2005

Your life is touched by a certain 'pietas', or piety; perhaps you are even a Stoic.

Archive 2005-04-01 Zoe Brain 2005

Passion, greed, lawless self-seeking, personal ambition, the decay of the older Roman sense of unselfish duty, of that "pietas" which subordinated the interest of the individual man to the common interest of the state, this was henceforth to be the real enemy of Rome.

Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860

Well for you, if you can believe him; for to believe him, you must understand him first; and I can tell you, you won't arrive at that understanding by looking out the word 'pietas' in your White-and -

Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

But of course when your attention is turned to the matter you will recollect many lines in which the word 'pietas' occurs, of which you have only hitherto failed to allow the force because you supposed

Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

The phrase 'son of God' on the lips of an actual centurion was a way of saying that someone had 'pietas', piety, righteousness, and probably did not deserve his fate.

Ben Witherington 2009

The Romans, from what I can tell, had a good view on duty and its relationship to all they meant by pietas.

The Depths of the World « Unknowing 2010