Definition of Devote

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Devote

To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.

To execrate; to curse.

To give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc.

Devoted; addicted; devout.

A devotee.

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Devote Quotations

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
James Allen

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
James Joyce

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
Bill Watterson

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
Charles Babbage

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Devote Translations

devote in Afrikaans is spandeer
devote in Dutch is spanderen, opdragen, spenderen
devote in French is adonnent, adonner, adonnons, adonnez, consacrer
devote in German is hingeben, widmen
devote in Italian is cedere
devote in Latin is confero
devote in Norwegian is vie
devote in Spanish is consagrar

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