devout

Even when the devout Christian decided to retire, he found a way to be of public service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Before every game, no matter what team I was on at the time, the coach would always ask the most devout player to say a prayer.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"The 1851 memoir, by contrast, was a spiritual redemption story, with Byfield tracing his progress from rebellious sinner to devout and repentant Christian."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

A devout Christian, she also became a supporter of gay rights.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Another woman was a devout Catholic who walked four miles with her three children to the local town for mass on Sunday.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

After which he procured them food and medicines, which he begged from the devouter sort, and himself attended them both day and night.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Sir Walter Scott

Instead of contemning the idea of a heavenly futurity as an idle dream image of human longing, it were both devouter and more reasonable, from 22 Charakteristiken und Kritiken, s.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

But I have no devouter superstition than that the souls of women who die in childbed and men who fall in battle go straight to Paradise!!!

From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden

Robinson Crusoe on his island could not have had a devouter thankfulness when he recovered the articles from the wreck than we had in the contemplation of our treasure.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith

Mrs. Orr, devouter votary than I, explains that Browning meant "that everything which disturbs the equal balance of human life gives a vital impulse to the soul."

From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield

It would be still possible even for the devoutest Wagnerian disciple to hear such a concert, perhaps, without leaving the hall in indignation, perhaps even without a protest.

From From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 by George William Curtis

His poor old Father, the devoutest of Protestants, wailed aloud his "Ichabod! the glory is departed!"—holding "weekly fast and humiliation" ever after,—and died in few months of a broken heart.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

More fervid lines have seldom flowed from his spirit in its devoutest mood, than some awakened by the sounds and sights of a happy day in May—to him—though no church-bell was heard—a Sabbath.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

Everywhere the devoutest Jews were conscious of wants which the national faith did not meet.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser

Even your devoutest clergymen get so accustomed to it, as not to see the capital mistake they make.

From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper