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Definition of Devotements
1. devotement [n] - See also: devotement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devotements
Literary usage of Devotements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth by Nathaniel Hooke (1830)
"To this message the consuls returned the following answer : " Pyrrhus is not
formidable enough to reduce us to devotements. To show how little we fear him, ..."
2. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1843)
"Here the question may arise, with regard to the fact of such devotements.
Without entering fully into that subject, it cannot be denied, that some passages ..."
3. The Great Commission: Or, The Christian Church Constituted and Charged to by John Harris, William R. Williams (1858)
"What, then, might we not hope to see result, were deeds added to words, and
personal devotements to arguments and professions ! Let them be respectfully ..."
4. An Apology for Promoting Christianity in India by Claudius Buchanan (1814)
"... these self-devotements, he ought, every morning, during the height of the
festival, to have visited the Golgotha, or plaee where the dead bodies are ..."
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