What is "devoutly"

Usage examples of "devoutly".

A difference of religion is always pernicious, and often fatal, to the harmony of the prince and people: the Gothic conqueror had been educated in the profession of Arianism, and Italy was devoutly attached to the Nicene faith.

The touching spectacle was presented of bearded veterans, who had charged in a score of combats, kneeling devoutly under the rustic roofs of evergreens, built for religious gatherings, and praying to the God of battles who had so long protected them.

How devoutly we did wish that the Ecuadorian Congress was compelled to travel this horrid road once a year!

With the true zeal of an editor and a patriot, he devoutly justifies or excuses the characters of his countrymen.

And the more devoutly that he listens, And the holier message that is sent, Still the more his soul must struggle vainly, Bowed beneath a noble discontent.

According to the master, nothingness-the pregnant void, nonthinking, nondesiring, nonbeing, consciousness turned inward and so purged, so purified that it no longer distinguished itself-was a mental state devoutly to be wished.

Kendall propped her elbows on the table, lacing her fingers together and resting her chin on them as she gazed steadily across the table at Hawke with what she devoutly hoped was an unreadable expression.

In a second visit to Bagdad, the Seljukian prince again rescued the caliph from his enemies and devoutly, on foot, led the bridle of his mule from the prison to the palace.

For it can come to pass that after many venial sins a man may approach devoutly to this sacrament and fully secure its effect.

But he believed, devoutly, that the prisoner complement of Stalag XVII-B was a military formation, and a military formation must have discipline.

The Varangian glared, then evidently decided not to waste time pounding him into the rock before he searched for his princess-a decision for which Father Basil was devoutly grateful.

The archers doffed caps at the sight of it, and the bailiff crossed himself devoutly as he handed it to the robber.

Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.

So speak you with your Healers, and tell them, Alberich of Karse wishes this, most devoutly.

As I did not want to lose even the smallest particle of so precious a treasure, I cut with a pair of scissors all the small bits which were left, and devoutly gathered them together.