Etymology

devoutly

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Today it means: In a devout manner. Full definition →

English devout ← Middle English devout ← Old French devot
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The story

  1. Latindēvoveō
  2. Ecclesiastical Latindēvōtu
  3. Old Frenchdevot
  4. Middle Englishdevout
  5. Englishdevout
  6. English todaydevoutly

From devout + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.