Definition of "devote" []

• To give or apply (one's time, attention, or self) entirely to a particular activity, pursuit, cause, or person. (verb-transitive)
• To set apart for a specific purpose or use: land devoted to mining. (verb-transitive)
• To set apart by or as if by a vow or solemn act; consecrate: a temple devoted to Apollo. (verb-transitive)

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• "Jet magazine should never again devote its magazine cover to occasion of Foxy Brown's release from jail for any other person for that matter."
• "Why, you may ask, do we non-believers take a moment out of our lives once a year to honor a man who is popularly known as a devote Christian who became a civil rights hero?"
• "And what reason hath the church of God to admit none to be her ministers to consecrate and daily receive this most pure sacrament, but such as devote themselves to"