devout

Known as the "Plain People" for the simple clothes they wear, the Amish are a devout Christian community that does not use many forms of technology, relying on horse and buggies instead of cars.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

For most of Tomlinson’s life, she regarded her mother as a flawless, devout Christian whom she desperately yearned to impress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

While deathly ill in 1373, a devout 30-year-old English mystic known as Julian of Norwich had a series of 16 visions of the divine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is a former lay preacher in the Methodist church, while Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is the devout son of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

The team had an incredible array of talent, the devout boosters whispered, the best of any Permian team in a decade.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

The devouter portion of the people still pray, and on the whole, live sober, righteous and godly lives; but multitudes are discouraged, and take themselves away.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker

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

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

Robinson Crusoe on his island could not have had a devouter thankfulness when he recovered the articles from the wreck than we had in the contemplation of our treasure.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith

Mrs. Abigail protested that her Lady was one of the devoutest, sweetest and handsomest creatures in the world; but observed, since she had been obliged to leave Castle-Bellingham, she was grown very nervous.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West

The religion of Success no longer held him as its devoutest worshiper.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

It is richer in its contents, it is better and mightier in its influences, than its devoutest friends are aware.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker

Never had I felt this scorching flame, I to whom love had appeared only in the form of devoutest worship.

From Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac

Philo does not feel his daringly allegorical sublimations as any departures from the devoutest Biblical faith.

From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin