Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: devoutly
IPA transcription: [dɪv'aʊtli]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: devoutly, piously
    Meaning: in a devout and pious manner; "she was devoutly Catholic"
Usage examples
  • 'I hope not,' I said devoutly.
  • But this devoutly desired consummation did not come to pass.
  • Grushenka stood up and crossed herself devoutly before the ikon.
  • No doubt she devoutly wished her plain pudgy husband wore a scarlet coat.
  • I believed devoutly in her power to fascinate him, in her dazzling loveliness.
  • You can go, and I devoutly hope the next man you sandbag will be one of the jury.' On another occasion a man was found stabbed on the Cariboo Road.
  • It would be a healing of wounds most desirable and salutary; an arrangement advantageous to them all; a destiny for Lily most devoutly to be desired,--if only it were possible.
  • This most attractive asterism, which has never ceased to fascinate the imagination of Christendom since it was first devoutly described by the early explorers of the South, is but a passing collocation of brilliant stars.
  • I devoutly hoped she would leave it behind in some of our numerous stopping-places, and with an eye to that possibility, I must confess, I hung it in the most out-of-the-way corners I could find; but it seemed to be on her mind continually.
  • It needed nothing more than this simple slip of Theodora North's tongue to assure him that Lady Throckmorton had been telling her the story of his engagement to Miss Gower, and, as might be anticipated, he was not as devoutly grateful to her ladyship as he might have been.