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DEVOUTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Piety by virtue of being devout
Synonyms:
devoutness; religiousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("devoutness" is a kind of...):
piety; piousness (righteousness by virtue of being pious)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "devoutness"):
pietism; religionism; religiosity; religiousism (exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal)
Derivation:
devout (deeply religious)
