Meanings of devout attitude in English

Buddha stands with raised hand, while five monks stand or sit or squat around him in devout attitude.

On another occasion, during vespers, he saw him in church, near the holy water stoup, in a devout attitude.

That all changed after his time in Australia, she said, and his new devout attitude "created tension" within the family.

They are apparently useful as a means of proselyting, and as a means of sustaining the devout attitude in converts once made.

In such cases of reversion there is a return to the unmediated relation of subservience, as the dominant fact of the devout attitude.

Hence the devout attitude survives in a better state of preservation among these classes than among the common run of men in the modern communities.