Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To devote; apply.
  • To disavow; disclaim.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To give up; to devote.
  • transitive verb obsolete To disavow; to disclaim.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To give up; to devote.
  • verb obsolete To disavow; to disclaim.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

French dévouer, Latin devovere. See devote (transitive verb).

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