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Definition of Devoting
1. devote [v] - See also: devote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devoting
Literary usage of Devoting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... being mow on n level with each other, and each grasping to become first, had
recourse to devoting [not only their speeches, but] even their ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... teleosts of the locality, devoting his principal attention to the epiphysis.
Edwin Linton, Ph.D., professor of biology, Washington and Jefferson College ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... two Persians, devoting themselves for their country, suddenly rushed upon him
with drawn scimitars : the emperor dexterously received their blows on his ..."
4. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1843)
"1 Although these were of the ancients, it happened that, by devoting themselves
to scholastic theology, they became inflamed with il, but were not able lo ..."
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