devoutfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

devoutful (comparative more devoutful, superlative most devoutful)

1. (obsolete) Full of devotion; devoted or pious.

   Synonyms: godfearing, heavenly-minded, piteous; see also Thesaurus:devout

2. (obsolete) Sacred.

   Synonyms: blessed, hallowed, godly; see also Thesaurus:holy

   • 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.

参照

• “devoutful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.