Meanings of devout observances in English

What can properly be spoken of here are the tangible, external features of devout observances.

These occupations are government, war, sports, and devout observances.

Their customary devout observances concluded, lights were extinguished, and the ladies kissed, and entered their beds.

The men are exempt from these vulgar employments and are reserved for war, hunting, sports, and devout observances.

And in addition to this, the devout observances also commend themselves to this class on the ground of reputability.

You speak like a fellow recording the devout observances of a great dame with her minor and superior, ecclesiastical comforters.

The artisan class, on the other hand, is notoriously falling away from the accredited anthropomorphic creeds and from all devout observances.

Here there is pretty uniformly present in the devout observances a direct appeal to the emotions through all the avenues of sense.

The men of the upper middle class commonly take a more complacent attitude towards devout observances than the men of the artisan class.

Hence a habit of mind favorable to devout observances and to the interpretation of the facts of life generally in terms of personal status.

This Southern leisure class is somewhat given to devout observances; more so than any class of corresponding pecuniary standing in other parts of the country.

She thought so; she relied on her devout observances; they gave her sweet confidence, and the sense of being specially shielded even when specially menaced.

By far the greater number of American colleges and universities, for instance, are affiliated to some religious denomination and are somewhat given to devout observances.