devotedadj.
/dɪˈvəʊtɪd/ 1. Vowed; appropriated or set apart by a vow or formally; under a vow; dedicated, consecrated.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > [adjective]
hallowedc900
holyc1000
blessedc1200
blissfula1225
seelya1225
yblessed1297
sacred13..
saint1377
devoutc1380
divinec1380
consecratec1386
dedicatec1386
benedighta1400
happyc1405
sillya1450
sacrate?a1475
sanctificatec1485
sacrificed?1504
sacrea1535
religious1549
vowed1585
anointed1595
devote1597
devoted1597
consecrated1599
sacrosanct1601
sanctimonious1604
sanctified1607
dedicated1609
divined1624
sacrosanctious1629
reverend1631
celebrate1632
divinified1633
sacrosanctified1693
sanctimonial1721
sacramental1851
divinized1852
sacral1882
sanct1890
sanctifiable1894
sacramented1914
hierophanic1927
kramat1947
sacralized1979
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 35 To stop deuoted charitable deedes. View more context for this quotation
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age ii. sig. D3v All deuoted To abandon men, and chuse virginity.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Deuoted, vowed.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 113 A Societie of devoted persons, who continued in meditation so many houres a day.
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 381 The Ethnick Temples and devoted places at Rome.
1829 N. Worcester Atoning Sacr. (1830) iv. 16 Laying the hands on the head of the devoted sacrifice.
2.
a. Characterized by devotion; zealously attached or addicted to a person or cause; enthusiastically loyal or faithful. (Of persons, their actions, etc.)
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the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > devoted
addicted1560
devotious1583
devote1597
devoted1600
devotional1677
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [adjective]
holdc893
trueOE
leala1300
truefula1350
faithfula1375
true-hearted1465
liege1478
well-wishing1548
allegiant1556
vowed1560
lewtifull1563
whole-chested1576
devotious1583
devote1597
loyal-hearted1599
devoted1600
resolved1600
real1639
fidelious1650
liegeful1872
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 261 Being a devoted servant to the Prior.
1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. i When you vow a most devoted love to one, you swear not to tender a most devoted love to another.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) i. i, in Wks. (1821) II. 19 Sir, your very devoted.
1888 in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. xcvi. 348 The creation of these democratic institutions has cost the life-work of thousands of devoted men.
b. with to.
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1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill Ded. sig. A ij A Gentleman most sincerely devoted to your Honor.
1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) 13 A Gentleman of this Land wholly devoted to Puritanisme.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 5 Her heart was devoted to La Motte.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 115 Devoted as Queensberry had always been to the cause of prerogative.
3. Formally or surely consigned to evil or destruction; doomed.
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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > consigned to evil
wariedc975
execrable1557
devoted1611
execrated1660
the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > state or condition of being
accursedc1225
banned1340
cursed1393
maledighta1400
remauldit?1473
condemned1543
execrable1557
devoted1611
execrated1660
maledicted1727
maledict1867
society > faith > worship > excommunication > [adjective] > who is under
amansedOE
cursed1393
maledighta1400
aggravate1471
excommunicate1526
Maranatha1526
excommunicated1574
innodate1587
anathematized1605
devoted1611
thunderstruck1649
unchurched1681
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [adjective] > affected by
unsalveda1240
damned1393
reprobate?a1425
prescit?a1450
losta1533
reprobated1541
condemned1543
unredeemed1548
devoted1611
unsaved1648
non-elect1650
presciteda1660
damning1662
unelected1836
1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xiii. 17 There shall cleave nought of the cursed [margin. deuoted] thing to thine hand. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 890 These wicked Tents devoted . View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria in Fables 261 He cheared the Dogs to follow her who fled, And vow'd Revenge on her devoted Head.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 451 Round our devoted heads the billows beat.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) II. vi. 59 He leaves him..a devoted victim to Milo.
1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity 183 All your violent declamation falls upon..my devoted head.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. i. 16 Another storm burst on the devoted land.
1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. xiii. 101 Though the heaven should fall on her devoted head, that tardy justice must be done!
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