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▪ I. devout, a. and n.|dɪˈvaʊt|
Forms: α. 3–5 (6 Sc.) devot, 3–7 (9 arch.) devote, (4 devoste), 6 Sc. devoit, divoit, divot. β. 3– devout, 4–5 devowt(e, 4–6 devoute.
[ME. devot, devout, a. OF. devot, devote (12th c. in Littré), = Pr. devot, Sp. devoto, It. divoto, ad. L. dēvōt-us devoted, given up by vow, pa. pple. of dēvovēre to devote. The close OF. ō became the vowel ou (uː) in ME., whence the modern diphthong ou; but a form in ō, Sc. oi, was also in use: see devote a.]
1. Devoted to divine worship or service; solemn and reverential in religious exercises; pious, religious.
αa1225Ancr. R. 376 Þuruh aromaz, þet beoð swote, is understonden swotnesse of deuot heorte. c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 406 Be dep deuote in hol mekenesse. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 30 Þai er deuote men and ledez pure lyf. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 567 Diuoit he wes with mony almous deid. 1549Compl. Scot. (1872) 4 The deuot Kyng, Numa pompilius. 1651[see devote a.].
β1297R. Glouc. (1724) 369 In chyrche he was deuout ynou. 1382Wyclif Ex. xxxv. 29 Alle men and wymmen with a deuowt mynde offerden ȝiftis. c1440Promp. Parv. 120 Devowte, devotus. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 7 A shorte orison, saide with good devouute herte. c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 31/2 These people be very deuoute. 1530Palsgr. 310/1 Devoute, holy disposed to praye, deuot. 1636Sir H. Blount Voy. Levant (1637) 87 All the devouter sort (which are not many) goe to Church, and say their prayers. 1732Law Serious C. i. (ed. 2) 1 He..is the devout Man who lives no longer to his own will..but to the sole will of God. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ix. (1875) 398 The devoutest of your fellow Christians. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. ii. 185 Keble was a representative of the devout mind of England.
†b. gen. Devoted, religiously or reverently attached (to a person or cause). Obs.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 113 God wolle have oure herte devoute to him wiþouten ende. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6953 To saint cuthbert he was deuoute. 1609Bible (Douay) Comm. 201 Isaac was..devout to God. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 205 Sir Thomas Wentworth..became the most devout friend of the Church.
2. Of actions and things: Showing or expressing devotion; reverential, religious, devotional.
αa1340Hampole Psalter, Cant. 502 Þe deuot ȝernyngis of his halighis. c1500Blowbol's Test. in Halliwell Nugae Poet. 3 He wold syng Foure devoite masses at my biryng. a1541Barnes Wks. 318 (R.), To help mee wyth his deuote prayer. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 8 Faithful and devoit prayar. 1625–[see devote a.].
βc1340Hampole Prose Tr. 24 Deuoute prayers, feruent desires, and gostely meditacions. 1526(title), The Pylgrymage of Perfeccyon, a devoute Treatyse in Englysshe. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 78 The devout warre, taken in hand for the reliefe of the poore Christians in Syria. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 863 With uplifted hands, and eyes devout. 1763John Brown Poetry & Mus. xii. 214 Our parochial Music..is solemn and devout. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 347 In his writings, he affects the devout style usual to all Mussulmans.
3. Earnest, sincere, hearty.
1828Webster s.v., You have my devout wishes for your safety. 1880Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Rebel of Family I. v, The sanctity of caste, in which she..was so devout a believer.
B. as n.
†1. A devotee. Obs.
[c1440Gesta Rom. xcii. 419 (Add. MS.) This knyght had a good woman to wife, and a deuoute to oure ladie.] 1616R. Sheldon Miracles Antichrist 247 (T.) Not..the ordinary followers of Antichrist, but..his special devouts. 1675tr. Machiavelli's Prince xv. (Rtldg. 1883) 98 One a devout, another an atheist.
2. That which is devout; the devotional part.
1649Milton Eikon. i. (1851) 344 This is the substance of his first Section, till we come to the devout of it, model'd into the form of a privat Psalter.
▪ II. † deˈvout, v.
Obs. Variant of devote v.
1605Stow Chron. an. 1603 (R.) Hee shewed himselfe a well deuouted Christian. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Libraries Wks. (1711) 223 How much is Florence adebted..to Bessarion..who at his death devouted to it a library. 1651tr. Bacon's Life & Death 15 A Man peaceable, Contemplative and much devouted to Religion. |