devoutful

English

Etymology

From devout (adjective) +‎ -ful.

Adjective

devoutful (comparative more devoutful, superlative most devoutful)

  1. (obsolete) Full of devotion; devoted or pious.
  2. (obsolete) Sacred.
    • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent. […], revised edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:
      [T]o ſelect among ten thouſand faires, / A Lady farre inferior to the moſt, / In faire proportion both of limbe and ſoule: / To take her from auſterer check of parents, / To make her his by moſt deuoutfull rightes, / Make her commandreſſe of a better eſſence / Then is the gorgious world even of a man.

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