devout

These dozen or so new worshippers - clustered around a band called Present Tense - were devout but disillusioned with traditional Anglican worship.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

While deathly ill in 1373, a devout 30-year-old English mystic known as Julian of Norwich had a series of 16 visions of the divine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Joey is devout; she certainly believes that God has a plan for her.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

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

He finds them the same men, although with better and devouter hearts, as we are at this day.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various

They are nests built with faithfulness and affection, and through them one seems to get a glimpse of devouter, sturdier times.

From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs

The religion of Success no longer held him as its devoutest worshiper.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

Mrs. Abigail protested that her Lady was one of the devoutest, sweetest and handsomest creatures in the world; but observed, since she had been obliged to leave Castle-Bellingham, she was grown very nervous.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West

If my essay could be as good as my subject it would be worthy of devoutest attention.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

From being mutineer and homicide, he had turned Christian and teacher, and his nation of twenty-seven persons was now the purest and devoutest in Christendom.

From Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Philo does not feel his daringly allegorical sublimations as any departures from the devoutest Biblical faith.

From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin