devoted

CEFRB2

/dɪˈvəʊtəd/

adjective · verb

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01
adjective
Very loyal and loving toward someone or something.
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adjective
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Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Bob and Sara are devoted to their children.
The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction […]

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The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction […]
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 31
He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, page 487
The feelings of the crew now burst forth in the most extravagant transports. They had recently considered themselves devoted men, hurrying forwards to destruction; they now looked upon themselves as favorites of fortune, and gave themselves up to the most unbounded joy.
1828, Washington Irving, “First Landing of Columbus in the New World”, in A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: G. & C. Carvill, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 151

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From devote + -ed.