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devoutly /dɪˈvaʊtli /adverb1In a manner that shows deep religious feeling or commitment: they passed a man praying devoutly beside a roadside shrine...- At the hour of death the Holy Masses you have heard devoutly will be your greatest consolation.
- Throughout his life he held devoutly to the Presbyterianism in which he was raised.
- Despite becoming devoutly religious, he was arrested for shoplifting during 2004.
1.1 [usually as submodifier] In a totally committed and sincere way; earnestly: let us devoutly hope that Morris is correct he devoutly believes that he is rescuing these children from savagery...- They don't yearn for the radical transformation of bourgeois aspirations devoutly wished by stalwarts.
- Living and working in Paris, the singer looks as though she devoutly avoids all forms of bad cholesterol.
- During the actual reconstruction, architect John Greenfield and master carpenter Peter McCurdy followed this resolution devoutly.
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