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devoted, ppl. a.|dɪˈvəʊtɪd|
[f. devote v. + -ed1.]
1. Vowed; appropriated or set apart by a vow or formally; under a vow; dedicated, consecrated.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. ii. 35 To stop deuoted charitable deeds. 1611Heywood Gold. Age ii. Wks. 1874 III. 27 All deuoted To abandon men, and chuse virginity. 1623Cockeram, Deuoted, vowed. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. II. 113 A Societie of devoted persons, who continued in meditation so many houres a day. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 381 The Ethnick Temples and devoted places at Rome. 1829N. Worcester Atoning Sacr. iv. (1830) 16 Laying the hands on the head of the devoted sacrifice.
2. Characterized by devotion; zealously attached or addicted to a person or cause; enthusiastically loyal or faithful. (Of persons, their actions, etc.)
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 261 Being a devoted servant to the Prior. 1606Marston Parasitaster iii. i, When you vow a most devoted love to one, you swear not to tender a most devoted love to another. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. i. i, Sir, your very devoted. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. xcvi. 348 These democratic institutions have cost the life work of thousands of devoted men.
b. with to.
1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio Ded. A ij, A Gentleman most sincerely devoted to your Honor. 1634Peacham Gentl. Exerc. 13 A Gentleman of this Land wholly devoted to Puritanisme. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest i, Her heart was devoted to La Motte. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 115 Devoted as Queensberry had always been to the cause of prerogative.
3. Formally or surely consigned to evil or destruction; doomed.
1611Bible Deut. xiii. 17 There shall cleave nought of the cursed [marg. deuoted] thing to thine hand. 1667Milton P.L. v. 890 These wicked Tents devoted. 1700Dryden Theodore & Hon. 124 He cheered the dogs to follow her who fled, And vowed revenge on her devoted head. 1718Prior Solomon ii. 543 Round our devoted heads the billows beat. 1741Middleton Cicero II. vi. (ed. 3) 59 He leaves him..a devoted victim to Milo. 1777Priestley Philos. Necess. 183 All your violent declamation falls upon..my devoted head. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. i. 16 Another storm burst on the devoted land. 1862Trollope Orley F. xiii, Though the heaven should fall on her devoted head. |