What's the difference between impiety and impious?

Impiety


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.
  • (n.) An impious act; an act of wickednes.

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Impious


Definition:

  • (a.) Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.

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