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Definition of Devoutest
1. devout [adj] - See also: devout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devoutest
Literary usage of Devoutest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose by James Holly Hanford (1919)
"... Their life the eddying of her living 0 simple spirit, guided from abo« Dear
Lady ! friend devoutest of my с Thus mayest thou ever, evermore rej 2. ..."
2. Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century from the French of Brantôme by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme, George Herbert Powell (1904)
"... one laughs at the Saint,"1 for he became the devoutest of Huguenots! Apropos of
that M. de Sansac, a great captain of his time, when he used to get ..."
3. An impartial history of Ireland, from the period of the English invasion to by Dennis Taaffe (1810)
"mass and catholic religion equal to the devoutest of them, jet he would make the
leaders of that dance know, that he preferred his country's good, ..."
4. Alfred, a poem by John Fitchett (1808)
"Rouse to high ardour and devoutest love For their insulted country, eager all To
follow the lov'd King to glory' or death. These, thus employ'd, ..."
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