devoted
Americanadjective
adjective
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feeling or demonstrating loyalty or devotion; ardent; devout
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set apart, dedicated, or consecrated
Other Word Forms
- devotedly adverb
- devotedness noun
- overdevoted adjective
- overdevotedly adverb
- overdevotedness noun
- quasi-devoted adjective
- quasi-devotedly adverb
- undevoted adjective
Etymology
Origin of devoted
Example Sentences
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Cassondra Curiel, the teachers’ union president, said in a statement this week that “the affordability crisis for those of us devoted to San Francisco’s next generation is real.”
From Los Angeles Times
The oldest millennials—the nation’s biggest generation—are entering their mid-40s and devouring a torrent of new supplements, lotions, pills, gels, books and podcasts devoted to menopause relief.
The FBI has devoted more personnel to the hunt.
Prince Charles is now England’s king, and Diana devoted herself to a life of service that helped her triumph in the international court of opinion before her untimely death.
From Salon
Of course, Boritt had devoted much of that life, as a historian, to picking at one of the gnarliest scabs in American history.
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