Timeline for Practicing or devout... the better choice?
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| Jun 13, 2019 at 14:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 13, 2019 at 10:40 | comment | added | Smock | I think someone who is devout, is dedicated to their religion - following all the rules, whether internal(strong belief in values), or external (praying etc). Being in prison or on a desert island, wouldn't typically prohibit you from praying - you would try to find a way, rather than give up - that's the difference between devout, and non-devout. | |
| Jun 13, 2019 at 8:08 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Another word like 'practising', meaning habitually or regularly carrying out rituals, prayer, diet, etc, is 'observant'. | |
| Jun 13, 2019 at 8:06 | answer | added | katatahito | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 13, 2019 at 8:01 | comment | added | xeesid | Actually this is what I think, I mean for a man who says prayers regularly despite the fact he may be flexible in his inner belief 'devout' doesn't seem to fit best. | |
| Jun 13, 2019 at 7:56 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | 'Practising/practicing' refers to outwardly visible actions (prayers, attending church/mosque/synagogue, obeying diet rules, declaring faith, etc), whereas 'devout' refers to inner belief. A person can be practising but not devout, and vice-versa. Note: I am British, and in British English, the noun is practice and the verb is practise. In US English the tendency is to use 'practice' for both. | |
| Jun 13, 2019 at 7:49 | history | asked | xeesid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |