Both Uses of
devout
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Yet all this, which would else have been such heavy sorrow, was made almost a solemn joy to her devout old soul, by religious consolations and the truths of Scripture, wherewith she had fed herself continually for more than thirty years.†
Chpt 20 *
- Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(devout) very religious; or having enthusiastic support (for something)