Word Meanings - ADDICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Addicted; devoted.

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• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• DEVOTO
  A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.
• DEVOTE
  1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
• DEVOTED
  Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer. -- De*vot"ed*ly, adv. -- De*vot"ed*ness, n.
• ADDICT
  Addicted; devoted.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• DEVOTEMENT
  The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. Bp. Hurd.
• DEVOTARY
  A votary. J. Gregory.
• ADDICTEDNESS
  The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
• DEVOTION
  1. The act of devoting; consecration. 2. The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. Genius animated
• DEVOTIONALITY
  The practice of a devotionalist. A. H. Clough.
• DEVOTER
  One who devotes; a worshiper.
• ADDICTION
  The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.
• DEVOTOR
  A worshiper; one given to devotion. Beau. & Fl.
• DEVOTIONALIST; DEVOTIONIST
  One given to devotion, esp. to excessive formal devotion.
• DEVOTEE
  One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• MISDEVOTION
  Mistaken devotion.
• UNDEVOTION
  Absence or want of devotion.
• SELF-DEVOTEMENT
  Self-devotion.
• SELF-DEVOTED
  Devoted in person, or by one's own will. Hawthorne.