Read full poem →Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote;
They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, 5
Dictionary Entry
To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter
In a Sentence
“I devoted this afternoon to repainting my study, and nothing will get in my way.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “devote”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I could be monarch of a desert land
I could devote and dedicate forever
To the truths we keep coming back and back to.
Read full poem →The Furies to madness my brain devote--
In robes of ice my body wrap!
Read full poem →forms, was distorted in vocabulary because of the
necessity to alliterate, and ‘it seems a pity to devote
so much time and labour to what is after all a pis
Read full poem →Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labors to others,
Hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
Read full poem →To thee, for whom my purest raptures flow,
Kneeling with filial homage, I devote
My life, my strength, my first and latest song."
Read full poem →Regret expressed that he did not devote to original composition
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