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duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious. A devout man, and one that feared God. Acts x. 2. We must be constant and devout in the worship of God. Rogers.

Sacred. [R.] To take her from austerer check of parents, To make her his by most devoutful rights. Marston.

Destitute of devotion. -- De*vout"less*ly, adv. -- De*vout"less*ness, n.

In a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously. Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly. Shak.

Quality or state of being devout.

Not devout. -- In*de*vout"ly, adv.

given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

Earnest prayer; devout wish. [Obs.] A solemn apprecation of good success. Bp. Hall.

r the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

bear; -- often with away or off. When he dieth he small carry nothing away. Ps. xiix. 17. Devout men carried Stephen to his burial. Acts viii, 2. Another carried the intelligence to Russell. Macaulay. The sound will be carried, at the least, twenty miles. Bacon.

A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

in America. The first settlers of New England were the best of Englishmen, well educated, devout Christians, and zealous lovers of liberty. There was never a colony formed of better materials. Ames.

cting; behavior; bearing. A graceful comportment of their bodies. Cowley. Her serious and devout comportment. Addison.

ompletion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet consummation have, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

See Courage [Obs.] To Canterbury with full devout corage. Chaucer.

Devoted; addicted; devout. [Obs.] Milton.

Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer. -- De*vot"ed*ly, adv. -- De*vot"ed*ness, n.

tiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

ection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated by a fervent spirit of devotion. Macaulay.

w; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor.