devout

in a sentence

For certainly Mrs. Merriweather was the most devout lady in Maycomb.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.  (source) James Joyce, Araby, 1914

Esperanza left her there, devoutly praying, and went into the cabin.†  (source) Pam Munoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising, 2000

My mother is very devout, and to start with she liked Fazlullah.†  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

[We] are devoutly to acknowledge that kind Providence ...hath restored our city to its useful state of health and prosperity†  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever, 1793, 2000

The Zen Gnostic Church was expanding exponentially and I became a true believer, appearing on HTV talk shows and searching for my Places of Power with all of the devoutness of a pre-Hegira Muslim pilgrimaging to Mecca.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

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.†  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

or, at any rate, she had seen before a thousand times this graygreen dawn after autumn rain, a presence in the room, or the memory of a presence, old, blind, despairing, a relative out of a tintype in the attic, Memento mori, Millie my maid, who sat in the room, hands folded on his cane, his wide tie drooping on his scorch-yellow shirt, his lumpy shoes toeing inward wearily, fingers the color of piano keys: and it was a part of his weariness that his substance did not interfere any more than a stranger's—that Coleridge poem—with her undevout vision of the chair behind him or the threadbare rug beneath his heavy shoes: not a ghost, exactly, or a dream either, but the heaviness of the morning†  (source) John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972

Rabbi, as you know, my family has not been the most devout.†  (source) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

There isn't anyone I want to invite," mumbled Harry, who was still not trying to think about Ginny any more than he could help, despite the fact the fact that she kept cropping up in his dreams in ways that made him devoutly thankful that Ron could not perform Legilimency.†  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

One of his Talmud teachers described his devoutness and dedication to Judaism, his mathematics professor talked about his brilliance as a student, and one of the members of the senior class told of the way he had always spoken of going to Israel.†  (source) Chaim Potok, The Chosen, 1967

they became to me twin stars of Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers.†  (source) Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia, 1850

"She's very devout," she whispered.†  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018