| 单词 | devout |
| 释义 | de·vout 1. < a devout man, and one that feared God — Acts 10: 2 (Authorized Version) > 2. < a devout posture > 3. < devout wishes for continued prosperity > Synonyms: < I was often devout, my eyes filling with tears at the thought of God and for my sins — W.B.Yeats > < a devout man, with a childlike trust in God — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > pious may suggest faithful and fervent performance of the duties of one's religion rather than inner, genuine feelings or attitudes; it may also be used in connection with hypocrisy < happy, as a pious man is happy when, after a long illness, he goes once more to church — Robert Hichens > < were pious Christians, taking their faith devoutly. But such religious emotion as was theirs, was reflected rather than spontaneous — H.O.Taylor > < a hypocrite — a thing all pious words and uncharitable deeds — Charles Reade > religious may suggest genuine faith and adherence to a way of life consonant with religion < he was a religious soul rather than a speculative intellect, and he measured all things by the principles of primitive Christianity — V.L.Parrington > < but Henry was a simple man, and a religious. On his knees before his confessor, he had learned that God was his friend — Francis Hackett > < they are not religious: they are only pew renters — G.B.Shaw > Commonly derogatory, pietistic stresses the emotional or ritualistic rather than the intellectual attitudes on religion and similar matters < an emotional person with pietistic inclinations that nearly carried him over at different times to the Plymouth Brethren, to the Wesleyan Methodists, and to the Countess of Huntingdon's connection — H.G.Wells > < his kneeling on a stage, in front of a crowded house, as was recorded in the press, to receive the blessing of a visiting cardinal, was, to Sean, a humiliating thing for the head of a republican state to do. The pietistic Spaniard in him, Sean thought — Sean O'Casey > sanctimonious now always implies pretension to or appearance of exaltedness, or some other hypocrisy < better in appearance anyway than that sanctimonious fellow, the missionary, who had passed straight from world service to one of the more exclusive tribes in the Congo — Ellen Glasgow > < if it only takes some of the sanctimonious conceit out of one of those pious scalawags — Robert Frost > |
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