Devout vs Ultrapious - What's the difference?
devout | ultrapious |
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.
* Bible, Acts x. 2
* Rogers
(archaic) Expressing devotion or piety.
Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest.
(obsolete) A devotee.
(obsolete) A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion.
Extremely pious, overly devout or reverent.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 16, author=Zev Chafets, title=The Missionary Mogul, work=New York Times
, passage=(This led the ultrapious Rabbi Eliezer Shach to acidly define Chabad as the sect closest to Judaism.) }}
As adjectives the difference between devout and ultrapious
is that devout is devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious while ultrapious is extremely pious, overly devout or reverent.As a noun devout
is a devotee.devout
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(en-adj)- a devout man, and one that feared God
- We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.
- devout''' sighs; '''devout''' eyes; a '''devout posture
- devout wishes for one's welfare
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*ultrapious
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