act of impiety

Would we be committing an act of impiety by releasing you?"

A churchman, most churchmen at least, would have denounced me for that act of impiety.

The face was fully in the light now, and it was a face that made these terrible hands a blasphemous contradiction, an act of impiety in themselves.

An old woman, the last of the Vestal Virgins, appeared, who rebuked Serena and called down punishment upon her for her act of impiety.

To apply the same method of illumination to three worldly things like cigars or cigarettes is regarded as an act of impiety and hence as unlucky."

I'll make a big issue of the fact that any kind of escort would be an act of impiety and that Chaldan might be offended.' '

An increasing awareness of his un-Biblical life led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity; in particular, he was harassed by a curiosity in regard to the "unpardonable sin" and a prepossession that he had already committed it.

Enemies of Alcibiades, using the anger of the Athenians as a pretext to investigate further desecrations, accused him of other acts of impiety, including mutilations of other sacred objects and mocking performances of religious mystery ceremonies.

It was said that this act of impiety induced Hercules to send a plague, which within thirty days carried off the entire gens, consisting of twelve families and thirty grown men; and Claudius was struck blind, which was the source of his cognomen.