All 4 Uses of
devout
in
Catch-22
- He was a devout man whose pulpit was everywhere.†
Chpt 9 *
- It's just that I'm a very devout person, and I like to call all men of God Father.†
Chpt 36
- They might do whatever they wished to him, he realized; these brutal men might beat him to death right there in the basement, and no one would intervene to save him, no one, perhaps, but the devout and sympathetic major with the sharp face, who set a water tap dripping loudly into a sink and returned to the table to lay a length of heavy rubber hose down beside the brass knuckles.†
Chpt 36
- He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(devout) very religious; or having enthusiastic support (for something)