Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; "pious readings"