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English
Etymology
From Latin impius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪmpi.əs/, /ɪmˈpaɪəs/
Adjective
impious (comparative more impious, superlative most impious)
- Not pious.
- Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
1928 February, H P Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:[…] surfaces too great to belong to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs.
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lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god