Sample Sentences for
devout
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    He was a devout man, and, even with all his impatience, he wanted to live his life in accordance with Muslim law.  (source)
    devout = very religious
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    My mother is very devout, and to start with she liked Fazlullah.†  (source)
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    Why is she making me act so religious and devout?†  (source)
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    Saeed was more melancholic than he had been before, understandably, and also more quiet and devout.†  (source)
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    Esperanza left her there, devoutly praying, and went into the cabin.†  (source)
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    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)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    they became to me twin stars of Leda, and I to them devoutest of astrologers.†  (source)
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    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)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undevout means not and reverses the meaning of devout. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Rabbi, as you know, my family has not been the most devout.†  (source)
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    Q. I devoutly hope so.†  (source)
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    ANNIE twinkles at KATE with mock devoutness.†  (source)
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    The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife.†  (source)
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    It showed a man in his early thirties with cropped dark hair and the wispy beard of a devout Muslim.†  (source)
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"Thanks be to goodness for that," breathed Marilla in devout relief.  (source)
devout = earnest or deeply felt
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