Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being devout.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being devout.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
devout .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun piety by virtue of being devout
Etymologies
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Examples
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Where circumstances are favorable, this proclivity is apt to express itself in a certain servile devotional fervor and a punctilious attention to devout observances; it may perhaps be better characterized as devoutness than as religion.
The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
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Where circumstances are favorable, this proclivity is apt to express itself in a certain servile devotional fervor and a punctilious attention to devout observances; it may perhaps be better characterized as devoutness than as religion.
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The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The original film was subject to the censorship mores of the time - a consideration that meant that the book's Catholic themes (Pinkie is afflicted with a peculiar kind of devoutness), and some of its more violent scenes (a murder by choking on a stick of Brighton rock), were dampened or excised.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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They leave Bibles, Christian literature, and Christian music CDs lying around their rooms; they attend fundamentalist Christian Bible studies; they feign devoutness at the Academy's weekly "Special Programs in Religious Education" (SPIRE) programs.
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They leave Bibles, Christian literature, and Christian music CDs lying around their rooms; they attend fundamentalist Christian Bible studies; they feign devoutness at the Academy's weekly "Special Programs in Religious Education" (SPIRE) programs.
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They leave Bibles, Christian literature, and Christian music CDs lying around their rooms; they attend fundamentalist Christian Bible studies; they feign devoutness at the Academy's weekly "Special Programs in Religious Education" (SPIRE) programs.
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But there was something puzzling about their devoutness.
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They leave Bibles, Christian literature, and Christian music CDs lying around their rooms; they attend fundamentalist Christian Bible studies; they feign devoutness at the Academy's weekly "Special Programs in Religious Education" (SPIRE) programs.
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