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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPI'ETY, n. [L. impietas;in and pietas, pius.]
1. Ungodliness; irreverence towards the Supreme being; contempt of the divine character and authority; neglect of the divine precepts. These constitute different degrees of impiety.
2. Any act of wickedness,as blasphemy and scoffing at the Supreme Being, or at his authority; profaneness. Any expression of contempt for God or his laws, constitutes an impiety of the highest degree of criminality. Disobedience to the divine commands or neglect of duty implies contempt for his authority,and is therefore impiety. Impiety, when it expresses the temper or disposition, has no plural; but it is otherwise when it expresses an act of wickedness, for all such acts are impieties.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god [syn: impiety, impiousness] [ant: piety, piousness]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 14th century 1. the quality or state of being impious ; irreverence 2. an impious act

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a lack of piety or reverence. 2 an act etc. showing this. Etymology: ME f. OF impieté or L impietas (as IN-(1), PIETY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Impiety Im*pi"e*ty, n.; pl. Impieties. [L. impietas, fr. impius impious; cf. F. impi['e]t['e]. See Impious, Piety.] 1. The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness. 2. An impious act; an act of wickednes. Those impieties for the which they are now visited. --Shak. Syn: Ungodliness; irreligion; unrighteousness; sinfulness; profaneness; wickedness; godlessness.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Irreverence, ungodliness, irreligion, profanity. 2. Ungodliness, wickedness, unrighteousness, sin, sinfulness, iniquity, unholiness. 3. Act of impiety, sin, iniquity. 4. Unfilial character, lack of filial devotion.

Moby Thesaurus

blasphemousness, blasphemy, desecration, godlessness, irreligion, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, sinfulness, un-Christliness, unangelicalness, unchristianliness, ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, wickedness