Sample Sentences for
devout
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    She is a devout Christian and believes sexual relations should only be between people who are married.
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    For certainly Mrs. Merriweather was the most devout lady in Maycomb.  (source)
    devout = religious
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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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    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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    Why is she making me act so religious and devout?†  (source)
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    We were to write in on a piece of paper, pray devoutly for nine days, and if we'd prayed well it would be answered.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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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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"Thanks be to goodness for that," breathed Marilla in devout relief.  (source)
devout = earnest or deeply felt
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