devout
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Ecclesiastical Latin dē Ecclesiastical Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti Proto-Italic *wogʷeō Ecclesiastical Latin voveō Ecclesiastical Latin dēvoveō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Ecclesiastical Latin -tus Ecclesiastical Latin dēvōtusbor. Old French devotbor. Middle English devout English devout Inherited from Middle English devout. From Middle English devout, devot, from Old French devot (French dévot), from Latin dēvōtus, perfect passive participle of dēvōveō. Doublet of devote.
Definitions
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; pious; extremely religious; godly.
- a devout man, and one that feared God
- We must be constant and devout in the worship of our God.
Expressing devotion or piety.
- devout sighs; devout eyes; a devout posture
Warmly devoted
Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest.
- devout wishes for one's welfare
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A devotee.
A devotional composition, or part of a composition
A devotional composition, or part of a composition; a devotion.
The neighborhood
- synonymAllah-fearing
- synonymdevout
- synonymdevoutful
- synonymfrum
- synonymgodfearing
- synonymheavenly-minded
- synonyminward
- synonymgodly
- synonymobservant
- synonympious
- synonympiteous
- synonympracticing
- antonymimpious
- antonymindevout
- antonyminobservant
- antonymlapsed
- antonymnonobservant
- antonymnonpracticing
- antonymunobservant
- antonymunobserving
- antonymundevout
- antonymungodly
- antonymunpious
- neighborprayerful
- neighborreverential
- neighborreligious
- neighborvirtuous
- neighborchurchy
- neighborcrawthumping
- neighborholier-than-thou
- neighboroverpious
- neighborparsonish
- neighborpietistic
- neighborsuperpious
- neighborultrapious
Derived
devoutful, devoutless, devoutly, devoutness, indevout, undevout
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at devout. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at devout. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at devout
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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