devotedness

Example Sentences

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I loved this version of myself — for her devotedness to her craft, for her absurd certainty, and for her promise to be true to only one outcome.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

She seems simple at points in her wifely devotedness, but this character is as discreetly ambitious as the others are ostentatiously so, and Swallow doesn’t allow us to underestimate Emily for long.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2016

O'Mahoney is saddled with an awkward speech explaining the source of Billy's personal and professional devotedness to Emily, but his character's reticence is unfailingly eloquent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2015

It is in times of general declension, of ruin and confusion that the faithfulness, devotedness, and decision of the individual man of God are specially called for.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)

I was struck with his holy devotedness to his great object, with his unwearied diligence, with his unbounded charity. 

From A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley containing a statement to the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society by Cunningham, Francis