devout

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

"The 1851 memoir, by contrast, was a spiritual redemption story, with Byfield tracing his progress from rebellious sinner to devout and repentant Christian."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

As a devout Catholic, he has nine children, each of whom recently appeared in a YouTube series following his family’s road trip across America to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026

A devout Christian, she also became a supporter of gay rights.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The stronger and devouter soul cannot conceive how the weaker had yielded.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren

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

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

In the twinkling of an eye he became the devoutest of hero worshipers.

From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

From being mutineer and homicide, he had turned Christian and teacher, and his nation of twenty-seven persons was now the purest and devoutest in Christendom.

From Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories by Mark Twain

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

Neither could any other thing, according to the law of circumcision, give the devoutest person that breathed a being of membership with them.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

Wherever Michael Angelo's hand has been, devoutest attention is instinctively aroused; when the master speaks, all others hold their peace.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Charles Gounod