devout person

“It’s just that I’m a very devout person, and I like to call all men of God Father.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Even the Mère Julie herself, though a devout person, the pears she sold to us on the last market day before these events, were far, very far, as she must have known, from being satisfactory.

From A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"I see that you are a devout person," said the friar, quietly.

From Via Crucis by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

A devout person will visit several each evening.

From The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell

On account of the early renown for piety which they acquired, it became usual to style any devout person a Theatino or Chietino.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson