This article is about a phrase. For the Estonian musical group, see Pia Fraus.
Pious fraud (Latin: pia fraus) is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine. A pious fraud can be counterfeiting a miracle or falsely attributing a sacred text to a biblical figure due to the belief that the "end justifies the means", in this case the end of increasing faith by whatever means available.
Piousfraud (Latin: pia fraus) is used to describe fraud in religion or medicine. A piousfraud can be counterfeiting a miracle or falsely attributing...
Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 1998. "Pia Fraus" is a Latin saying, meaning "piousfraud" or "small lie". Current Kristel Eplik (vocals) Eve Komp (vocals, synth)...
Great Depression as pious fictions. Look up pious fiction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Morality play Myth Noble lie Piousfraud Borras, Judit, Jewish...
have been a water horse rather than a kelpie, and the tale "obviously a piousfraud to keep children from wandering on Sundays". Kelpie myths usually describe...
religion, e.g. false claims to being kosher or tax fraud. A specific form of religious fraud is piousfraud (Latin: pia fraus), whereby one employs lies and/or...
under the influence of Tartuffe, a piousfraud (and a vagrant prior to Orgon's help). Tartuffe pretends to be pious and to speak with divine authority...
volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: This piousfraud, first devised in the ninth century, was devoutly cherished by the Latin...
devised a remedy by which to entice the wanton minds of men by a kind of piousfraud, the delicate Minerva secretly lurking beneath the mask of pleasure."...
concept drawn from the Metamorphoses is the idea of the white lie or piousfraud: "pia mendacia fraude". Six books in elegiacs survive of this second...
of a Prophet. Vogel argues in the biography that Joseph Smith was a piousfraud—that Smith essentially invented his religious claims for what he believed...
on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2023. Wujastyk, Dominik (2001). "`A PiousFraud': The Indian Claims for Pre-Jennerian Smallpox Vaccination". In G. J...
original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2009-11-06. Wujastyk, Dominik (2001). "`A PiousFraud': The Indian Claims for Pre-Jennerian Smallpox Vaccination". In G. J...
as fact until Alexandre Herculano reexamined the event, judging it a "piousfraud", in his investigation in the middle of the 19th century. Christianity...
intention is to create "proof" for religious history, it is considered piousfraud. Investigators of archaeological forgery rely on the tools of archaeology...
Art & Antiques Magazine. 2012-02-16. Keats, Jonathon (February 2012). "PiousFraud". Art & Antiques. "Frescoes on the Wall at St. Mary's Church". Getty...
blames "the Roman church" for many abuses in the world and accuses it of "piousfrauds". He adds that "the more learned and quick-sighted men, as Luther, Erasmus...
1955 in fine arts of the Soviet Union Keats, Jonathon (February 2012). "PiousFraud". Art & Antiques. Archived from the original on 2014-12-03. Retrieved...
monastery. Monasteries, at that time, were masters of the pia fraus, the "piousfraud" of falsifying documents to match a dead benefactor's supposed intent...
first quoted and perhaps introduced by Priscillian (a.d. 380) as a piousfraud to convince doubters of the doctrine of the Trinity." Another complementary...
Family now on the Throne despise such childish Delusions, such little piousFrauds, to prove their Divine Right to the Crown. They act upon noble Principles;...
planted in Glastonbury. Historians generally regard these legends as "piousfrauds" produced during the Middle Ages. In 2014, Simcha Jacobovici and fringe...