All 6 Uses of
devout
in
Moby Dick
- Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah.†
Chpt 82-84devoutly = in a manner that is very religious, or offers enthusiastic support (for something)
- Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.†
Chpt 88-90
- He paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.†
Chpt 85-87
- As Ptolemy Philopater testified of the African elephant, I then testified of the whale, pronouncing him the most devout of all beings.†
Chpt 85-87
- Among many other fine qualities, my royal friend Tranquo, being gifted with a devout love for all matters of barbaric vertu, had brought together in Pupella whatever rare things the more ingenious of his people could invent; chiefly carved woods of wonderful devices, chiselled shells, inlaid spears, costly paddles, aromatic canoes; and all these distributed among whatever natural wonders, the wonder-freighted, tribute-rendering waves had cast upon his shores.†
Chpt 100-102
Definitions:
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(1)
(devout) very religious; or having enthusiastic support (for something)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, and typically found only in classic literature, devout can be used as a synonym for earnest or sincere.