devoted
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devoted
- /dɪˈvəʊtəd/ UK
Where it comes from
From devote + -ed.
verb
- simple past and past participle of devote
adjective more devoted · most devoted
- Vowed; dedicated; consecrated. He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the s
- Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something. Bob and Sara are devoted to their children.
- Zealous; characterized by devotion.
- Cursed; doomed. The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction […]
