Definition of Devout

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Devout

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.

Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture.

Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout wishes for one's welfare.

A devotee.

A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion.

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Devout Quotations

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Thomas Carlyle

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
William Ames

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Moliere

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
Sri Aurobindo

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
Franz Schubert

Devout Translations

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devout in Spanish is devoto

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