Definitions
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- adjective
superlative form ofdevout : mostdevout .
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Examples
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Never had I felt this scorching flame, I to whom love had appeared only in the form of devoutest worship.
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A man who never ventured one impious word or deed against the gods we worship, but whose whole language concerning them, and his every act, closely coincided, word for word, and deed for deed, with all we deem distinctive of devoutest piety.
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The visit, his second, was by all accounts a typical trip by a foreign prelate, and even his devoutest biographers depict it as one of no great consequence.
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The visit, his second, was by all accounts a typical trip by a foreign prelate, and even his devoutest biographers depict it as one of no great consequence.
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Then King Arthur let array priests and clerks in the most devoutest manner, to bring in Sir Urre within Carlisle, with singing and loving to God.
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Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.
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And the pills are marvellous for them, they can take them without the devoutest husbands knowing anything about it. '
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And so it has been with thousands and thousands more of the devoutest and sincerest souls.
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The devoutest believers in "the march of intellect" must at intervals be almost driven to renounce their creed in despair.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832
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There are times and things concerning which words utterly fail and must fail to give utterance to the feelings of the heart, and this, let me say, is one of those times -- a day that I can never forget, a day for which -- though most unworthy of what has been given me -- I must always feel the devoutest thankfulness to
Report of Commemorative Services with the Sermons and Addresses at the Seabury Centenary, 1883-1885.
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