In the 15th century what would Christian priests have done to the "blasphemer," who would haye been so impiously wicked as to assert, that the above gods did still exist in full power?
Quite the contrary; for in absurdly imbodying it as a located Being, or by conferring personification in any shape or manner whatsoever, they impiously create one of those idols which they pretend to abhor, and become themselves idolators.
But you are to consider I was the same man that sought to dash him from the bulwarks of a ship in the mid-sea; the same that, a little before, very impiously but sincerely offered God a bargain, seeking to hire God to be my bravo.
I impiously said to myself: "I have hoped for her long enough; I have waited for her long enough.
I looked back with horror at the vices of my youth; at the fruitless after-days when I had impiously doubted all that is most noble, all that is most consoling in human life.
His gods were deaf--no miracle was wrought for his deliverance; and though he would have called down fire from heaven upon his adversaries, the thunders he impiously desired died harmless on his own tongue.
I do not exalt myself so impiously as to wish to sit in judgment upon you.
Then came the bloody hand of what was impiously termed retributive justice.
Some writers consider this verse prophetical of the desolate state of Jerusalem under Antiochus Epiphanes, that sacrilegious monarch who impiously profaned the sanctuary of the God of Israel.
Of Too Much Pride As the Emperor Jovinian lay abed, reflecting on his power and possessions, he impiously asked, "Is there any other god than I?
There libellous authors were quickly cast into prison, and the like severity was used if aught were impiously written.
And at that time the gathering of these was desired, whose madness a little before had been seen by the bishops themselves to have been impiously inspired.
Instead ofimpiously criticising the Divine decree, we should exclaim with the Apostle: “O!
Verily those who impiously wrong our signs are not concealed from us.
Woe be unto you, for that which ye impiously utter concerning God!
But now have they lost their souls; and that which they impiously imagined hath fled from them.
The Christians are most impiously deceived and involved in error, through the greatest ignorance of the meaning of divine enigmas.
Did you not perceive how he spurned the virgin from him when ye did impiously cast her into his holy urn?
If man impiously dares to submit his conscience to his fellow-man, or to any body of men called a church, what perplexity must he experience ere he can make up his mind which to choose!
To assume that they are always in conformity with the laws of God is presumptuously and impiously to exalt man even to equality with God.
He who 'setteth the solitary in families' never yet failed in loving guardianship of trusting orphanage, and certainly you have no cause to upbraid fate, or impiously murmur against the decrees of your God.
Are you purer than Christ, and wiser than the Almighty, that you impiously deride and question their code for the government of the Universe, in which individual lives seem trivial as the sands of the desert, or the leaves of the forest?
How could he know that at that instant she was impiously vowing that heaven had heard her last prayer?
Prometheus strove impiously to possess himself of Divine knowledge, and created man with a base amalgam of earth and the bones of animals, vivified by the celestial fire he had obtained.
It is a melancholy reflection that, at various periods, impostors have impiously called in Scriptural aid to promote their sordid or ambitious views.
Their constancy repaired the scandal given by Eudæmon, the bishop of Smyrna, there present, who had impiously apostatized and offered sacrifice.
A powerful enemy has invaded my dominions, and has impiously presumed to discomfit my troops.
But should the people, rather than submit to our clemency, impiously slay their elected magistrates, it will be apparent that the methods of our martial friend are the only ones corresponding to the exigency of the case.
This marble-hearted reprobate has impiously dared to reproach an affectionate,--a peculiarly warm-hearted father with the death of a favourite son.
The people and the senate reproached him with the breach of the oath he had made to that purpose; but he impiously said that there was a law which commanded an emperor to forswear himself and to tell a lie in cases of necessity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
