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devoutness

 
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n.

Quality or state of being devout.

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noun

    A state of often extreme religious ardour: devotion, pietism, piety, piousness, religionism, religiosity, religiousness. See religion.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: piety by virtue of being devout
  Synonym: religiousness

 
 
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