devout
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A devout Christian, Beshara expressed hope that she and her colleagues would lead "a legislative revolution befitting Syria" that would bring all citizens safety after more than 13 years of war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Semenyo is a devout Christian and has faith-based tattoos etched across his body.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
But Rickey, a devout Methodist, also despised bigotry, which he considered un-Christian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Father Quyen Truong followed by telling parishioners what a devout Catholic Sayre was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
He was a devout Buddhist who ate no meat and so few vegetables that I doubt if a grasshopper could have lived on what he ate.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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He finds them the same men, although with better and devouter hearts, as we are at this day.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
But I have no devouter superstition than that the souls of women who die in childbed and men who fall in battle go straight to Paradise!!!
From Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden
After which he procured them food and medicines, which he begged from the devouter sort, and himself attended them both day and night.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Sir Walter Scott
They are nests built with faithfulness and affection, and through them one seems to get a glimpse of devouter, sturdier times.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
Mrs. Orr, devouter votary than I, explains that Browning meant "that everything which disturbs the equal balance of human life gives a vital impulse to the soul."
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
More fervid lines have seldom flowed from his spirit in its devoutest mood, than some awakened by the sounds and sights of a happy day in May—to him—though no church-bell was heard—a Sabbath.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
The barbarians have been the devoutest worshippers at all times.
From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
To him it suggested an attitude of the devoutest worship.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
And so it has been with thousands and thousands more of the devoutest and sincerest souls.
From Love's Final Victory by Horatio
The devoutest believers in "the march of intellect" must at intervals be almost driven to renounce their creed in despair.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 by Various
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