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devoted (having enthusiastic belief and supporting) — usually to a religion
- Neither clock nor weather-glass is ever right; but we believe in both, devoutly.Chapters 43-45 (1% in)
- As I parted hurriedly from the dear girl to whom I owed so much, and thought from what she had been saved, perhaps, that morning — her better resolution notwithstanding — I felt devoutly thankful for the miseries of my younger days which had brought me to the knowledge of Mr. Micawber.Chapters 52-54 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "devout" in David Copperfield.
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