Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being; devoted, attached, or addicted; zealous faithfulness and attachment.

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  • noun State of being devoted.

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  • noun feelings of ardent love

Etymologies

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devoted +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I think they were a little stuck-up about it, believing it to be an act unrivalled in devotedness, and they were most tiresome all the afternoon, talking about their secret, and not letting us know what it was.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • Added to the devotedness is her love of creativeness.

    Communism and Woman 2007

  • When a superior commands with over-much gentleness and circumspection, besides the fact that he compromises his authority and causes it to be slighted, he so attracts and attaches his inferior to himself that often unconsciously he robs God of the devotedness which is His due.

    The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Jean Pierre Camus 1618

  • I found a welcome in your arms, dear Mother, and received the embraces of another family, whose devotedness and love is not dreamt of by the outside world.

    Entry into Carmel 2009

  • All that is said of single-hearted devotedness to God and close following of Christ, is in itself right; the fallacy which Maude very naturally overlooked consists in ignoring that this devotedness to God can only be acceptable to Him when it leads us to follow His leading, not our own ; to do ' what our hand findeth to do,' not what our will chooseth.

    The Little Professor: 2009

  • All that is said of single-hearted devotedness to God and close following of Christ, is in itself right; the fallacy which Maude very naturally overlooked consists in ignoring that this devotedness to God can only be acceptable to Him when it leads us to follow His leading, not our own ; to do ' what our hand findeth to do,' not what our will chooseth.

    Maude; Or, the Anglican Sister of Mercy 2009

  • All that is said of single-hearted devotedness to God and close following of Christ, is in itself right; the fallacy which Maude very naturally overlooked consists in ignoring that this devotedness to God can only be acceptable to Him when it leads us to follow His leading, not our own ; to do ' what our hand findeth to do,' not what our will chooseth.

    Books 2009

  • All that is said of single-hearted devotedness to God and close following of Christ, is in itself right; the fallacy which Maude very naturally overlooked consists in ignoring that this devotedness to God can only be acceptable to Him when it leads us to follow His leading, not our own ; to do ' what our hand findeth to do,' not what our will chooseth.

    Academic 2009

  • All that is said of single-hearted devotedness to God and close following of Christ, is in itself right; the fallacy which Maude very naturally overlooked consists in ignoring that this devotedness to God can only be acceptable to Him when it leads us to follow His leading, not our own ; to do ' what our hand findeth to do,' not what our will chooseth.

    Religion 2009

  • If I hadn't stumbled across the books by accident in a library, I wouldn't be the devotee I am now leaving qualitative judgments about the nature of my devotedness aside.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Fred Perry 2008

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