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Definition of Devouter
1. devout [adj] - See also: devout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devouter
Literary usage of Devouter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"Your danger taught us all to pray : You made us grow devouter ! Each eye look'd
up, and seem'd to say How can we do without her f Besides, what vex'd us ..."
2. Henry Viii and the English Monasteries: An Attempt to Illustrate the History by Francis Aidan Gasquet (1893)
"It is probable that abbot Cook belonged to that class from which the English
monastic houses were so largely recruited, "the devouter and younger children ..."
3. The Acts of the Apostles explained by Joseph Addison Alexander (1857)
"... and the devouter Gentiles, whether formal proselytes or mere inquirers.
Reasoned, or disputed, both which equivalents are used in the translation of the ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"I shall not need to say that the devouter Christians in the first ages did ...
And it is certain, whatever those devouter people did in their religious ..."
5. Studies in Poetry and Philosophy by John Campbell Shairp (1886)
"When we come to conceive thus of God, then there becomes possible a going forth
towards Him of the tenderer and devouter emotions, as well as of the more ..."
6. Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social by Phillips Brooks (1894)
"The truths which He taught made men capable of a devouter devotion than any
Pharisee had known. And in the long run theological speculation which claims to ..."
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