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Definition of Devotement
1. n. The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.
Definition of Devotement
1. Noun. The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Devotement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devotement
Literary usage of Devotement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"Mr. George Watson Cole also kindly let me ascertain that the reading is "devotement"
in Mr. Huntington's six later quartos (1655, 1681, 1687, 1695, 1705, ..."
2. The Triumphs of the Cross by Edward Payson Tenney (1895)
"Self-devotement to the Master has come to be the deliberate choice of holy women
the world over: self-devotement to the poor, the homeless, ..."
3. A Memoir of Mrs. Harriet Wadsworth Winslow, Combining a Sketch of the Ceylon by Miron Winslow (1835)
"devotement TO MISSIONS—VISIT TO ... Occasional ill health, and other circumstances,
in course of the two years between her self-devotement and designation ..."
4. Quakerism Not Christianity: Or: Reasons for Renouncing the Doctrine of Friends by Samuel Hanson Cox (1833)
"... and not as it has been abused by anybody: its nature, as involving distinctness
of office ; life-devotement to its service ; constancy and regularity of ..."
5. Rivers in the Desert, Or, Missionn-scenes in Burmah by John Baillie (1858)
"... inn —The death-chamber—The awakening—The surrender—The man of one idea—" Star
in the East"—Life-devotement— ANOTHER LABOURER — Early traits—The first ..."
6. The Evolution of Love by Emory Miller (1907)
"devotement to the realisation of an ideal self—that ideal self for which he had
... In this devotement there was nothing aimless, fortuitous, or fatalistic. ..."
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