Usage notes. Sometimes used pejoratively, in the sense of mistaken or false piety, as in pious errors, pious frauds. reverent, reverential, dutiful, religious, devout, godly. (of or pertaining to piety): impious, independent, profane.
Midland, Texas. Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County.
Garrett drove 300 sheep across the Pecos River, at the present site of the town of Midland, before moving on to Mustang Draw and settling in as the county's first permanent settler. Promotions by the Texas and Pacific Railway, which built into the area in 1881, brought other sheepmen to what is now Midland County.