All 8 Uses of
devout
in
Middlemarch
- He assented to her expressions of devout feeling, and usually with an appropriate quotation; he allowed himself to say that he had gone through some spiritual conflicts in his youth; in short, Dorothea saw that here she might reckon on understanding, sympathy, and guidance.†
Chpt 1
- I believe devoutly in a natural difference of vocation.†
Chpt 2 *
- You are a devout worshipper, I perceive.†
Chpt 5
- —devout epigrams—the sacred chime of favorite hymns—all alike were as flat as tunes beaten on wood: even the spring flowers and the grass had a dull shiver in them under the afternoon clouds that hid the sun fitfully; even the sustaining thoughts which had become habits seemed to have in them the weariness of long future days in which she would still live with them for her sole companions.†
Chpt 5
- —But she had thought the work was to be something greater, which she could serve in devoutly for its own sake.†
Chpt 5
- "It is a pity she was not a queen," said the devout Sir James.†
Chpt 6
- Strange, piteous conflict in the soul of this unhappy man, who had longed for years to be better than he was—who had taken his selfish passions into discipline and clad them in severe robes, so that he had walked with them as a devout choir, till now that a terror had risen among them, and they could chant no longer, but threw out their common cries for safety.†
Chpt 7
- But Sir James Chettam was no longer the diffident and acquiescent suitor: he was the anxious brother-in-law, with a devout admiration for his sister, but with a constant alarm lest she should fall under some new illusion almost as bad as marrying Casaubon.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(devout) very religious; or having enthusiastic support (for something)