devotedness

Example Sentences

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I loved this version of myself — for her devotedness to her craft, for her absurd certainty, and for her promise to be true to only one outcome.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

She seems simple at points in her wifely devotedness, but this character is as discreetly ambitious as the others are ostentatiously so, and Swallow doesn’t allow us to underestimate Emily for long.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2016

O'Mahoney is saddled with an awkward speech explaining the source of Billy's personal and professional devotedness to Emily, but his character's reticence is unfailingly eloquent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2015

It was, however, impossible that one who loved with such entire devotedness, should not perceive when some dark and troublous cloud lay upon the object of her affection.

From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Roe, Azel Stevens

Lincoln's patriotic devotedness was no venture of a day or of a decade.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.