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  • adjective superlative form of devout: most devout.

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Examples

  • Never had I felt this scorching flame, I to whom love had appeared only in the form of devoutest worship.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • 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.

    Memorabilia 2007

  • 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.

    In Search of a Pope 2004

  • 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.

    In Search of a Pope 2004

  • 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.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • And the pills are marvellous for them, they can take them without the devoutest husbands knowing anything about it. '

    Flying Finish Francis, Dick, 1920- 1966

  • And so it has been with thousands and thousands more of the devoutest and sincerest souls.

    Love's Final Victory Horatio

  • 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 Various

  • 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. Diocese Of Connecticut

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