All 10 Uses of
devout
in
The Ramayana
- (152) There was a sacred hermitage Where saints devout of mind Their lives through many a lengthened age To penance had resigned.†
Book 1 *
- There lived a sage called Chúli then, Devoutest of the sons of men; His days in penance rites he spent, A glorious saint, most continent.†
Book 1
- Nor did he fail that saint to please With his devout austerities.†
Book 1
- He passed within, nor lingered there, But sought his mother's mansion, where The dame in linen robes arrayed Devoutly in the chapel prayed To Fortune's Queen, with utterance checked, That she her Ráma would protect.†
Book 2
- He heard the bards and heralds raise Auspicious strains of joy and praise; And breathed devout, with voice restrained, The hymn for morning rites ordained; Then, with his head in reverence bowed, Praised Madhu's conquering foe aloud, And, in pure linen robes arrayed, The priests to raise their voices prayed.†
Book 2
- How has she sinned, devout and true, The noblest monarch's child, That she should garb of bark indue And journey to the wild?†
Book 2
- His father's fate, from him concealed, Kaikeyí to her son revealed: Told as glad news the story sad, For lust of sway had made her mad: "Thy father, O my darling, know, Has gone the way all life must go: Devout and famed, of lofty thought, In whom the good their refuge sought."†
Book 2
- With sobs and sighs and broken tones, E'en as a wounded mallard moans, He mourned with deepest sorrow moved, And thus the holy priest reproved: "O, how can such as Bharat dare The power and sway from him to tear, Wise, and devout, and true, and chaste, With Scripture lore and virtue graced?†
Book 2
- Then glorious Bharat, true, devout, Whose genuine valour none could doubt, Gave in fit words his order out; For he would seek the shade Of the great distant wood, and there Win his dear brother with his prayer: "Sumantra, haste! my will declare The host be all arrayed.†
Book 2
- So Lakshma? too from food abstained, And sipped the water that remained: Then with ruled lips, devoutly staid, The three(362) their evening worship paid.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(devout) very religious; or having enthusiastic support (for something)