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third-person singular simple present devotes, present participle devoting, simple past and past participle devoted
to give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter quotations examples
He is the Chief of this far Countrey; and to his service, carnal and wicked men devote themselves.
1678, Obadiah Grew, Meditations Upon Our Saviour's Parable of The Prodigal Son
a leafless and simple branch […] devoted to the purpose of climbing
1879, Asa Gray, Botanical Text-book
to consign over; to doom examples
to execrate; to curse examples
comparative more devote, superlative most devote
(obsolete) devoted; addicted; devout quotations
A world devote to universal wrack
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,