On both of these occasions however, Cardinal Winchester, ostensibly a pious man, distorts Henry's genuine piety.

The genuine piety of his religious verses secured a place in popular hymnology for some of his hymns.

But he was also medieval, and prelatical, in his curious blend of gross superstition and worldly wisdom tempered by genuine piety.

Even his over-ardent but genuine piety was not of the kind to fit into the discipline of a monastic brotherhood.

He was a disciplinarian, a scholar, a modest and moderate man of genuine piety and irreproachable morals.

Pagan priests were capable of great holiness, pagan worshipers of genuine and deep-felt piety.

He was active in the Lutheran church out of genuine piety, not as a ploy to make contacts-although contacts he did make in abundance.

These "Sermons" have gone through several editions (7th ed., Dublin, 1873); they are characterized not so much by exceptional eloquence as by solid learning and genuine piety.

Justinian is portrayed as intelligent but reckless, a tragically poor judge of character, and a spendthrift (even if driven by genuine piety).

The character's glacial, repressive dignity and genuine if self-deluding piety don't seem to exist.