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Перевод: devout

[прилагательное]
набожный; благочестивый; благоговейный; искренний; преданный

Тезаурус:

1. It became more difficult for devout persons to explain why unforeseen disaster should overtake a religious group.
2. The Rev H.P. Wright, who was a chaplain in the Crimea, always carried in his breast-pocket a prayer-book given to him by a devout family nurse.
3. The earthly family was divinely instituted, and devout families believed that it would be reconstituted in heaven.
4. The opening of David Lodge's television adaptation of Nice Work (BBC 2), his latest novel, immediately establishes the contrasting worlds inhabited by Vic Wilcox, Managing Director of Pringle, a Midlands engineering firm (or "J Pringle-and-sons-how-may-I-help-you?" as the dolly receptionist intones) and Dr Robyn Penrose, temporary Lecturer in English at Rummidge University, devout feminist and campaigner against education cuts, bombs, racism and most other things.
5. I want to say in conclusion that it has as many consequences for the devout Evangelical as it does for the hardened Catholic.
6. Death, as in the classical era, was again becoming an underworld; it no longer heralded, except for the devout, a glorious resurrection.
7. As the century grew older, this belief in divine intervention in the minutiae of life became less common; but in certain devout households it was still alive at the century's end.
8. Miss Yonge, author of the famous tear jerker, The Heir of Redclyffe was no less devout, but belonged to the High Church party and practised greater moderation.
9. And what more propitious names for the devout and hopeful parents than those of the chief servant of the father of the People and the great rebuilder of Jerusalem!
10. "The Catholic Church was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor."
11. The leading layman of the York diocese was the politician whose judgement was likely to weigh with the Crown: Lord Halifax, the former Foreign Secretary, and a devout Anglo-Catholic.
12. Anywhere there are sizeable Muslim populations the war against Iraq is being portrayed by the devout as an attack by the West on Islam, however poorly this squares with the facts.
13. Bosnia's new president, Alija Izetbegovic, a devout Muslim and a former political prisoner, has already had exploratory talks with Croat, Serb and Slovene leaders.