devoutful

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English

Etymology

From devout (adjective) +‎ -ful.

Adjective

devoutful (comparative more devoutful, superlative most devoutful)

  1. (obsolete) Full of devotion.
  2. (obsolete) Sacred.
    • c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent. , revised edition, London: V S for William Aspley, , published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:
      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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “devoutful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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