(a.) Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(2) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(3) Thus, there is still a need for improvement, particularly future research devoted to better understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for arrhythmias, electrosurgical and medical arrhythmia therapy, and right and left ventricular mechanics after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
(4) But none of those calling on Obama to act carries the moral authority of Gore, who has devoted his post-political career to building a climate movement.
(5) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(6) Still, there are some aspects of Palin’s channel to recommend it to the devoted movement conservative that isn’t necessarily already a fan of hers – especially its obviating the need to resort to Palinology.
(7) However, as already noted by Albert (1979) this is questionable, as average disease duration and survival have increased in a linear fashion related to the number of publications devoted to this subject from 1950 on.
(8) A section of the paper is devoted to the less common use of Indoklon.
(9) In contrast, corporate support was positively correlated with the number of hours of total work per week, but negatively correlated with the amount of time currently devoted to research.
(10) This explains why this symposium is devoted to NSAIDs and elderly.
(11) I write as someone who has devoted my professional life mainly to other 19th novelists than Dickens.
(12) I came from a strong family and my parents had a devoted marriage, but I experienced the toll breast cancer took on their relationship and their children.
(13) They envisage cuts in farm support payments of more than €150,000 a year, with a cap set at €300,000, in order to devote more subsidy to smaller, family-run farms and ensure a fairer distribution of funds.
(14) During the course of the daily practice of forensic pathology, little or no attention is generally devoted to the tongue (if it is even removed at all during the autopsy examination) except in a handful of relatively well-defined situations.
(15) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
(16) The present research is devoted to the study of the effect of coupling force on bone conduction threshold determination.
(17) 3) Possible mechanisms of directed fibre growth are being elucidated by increasing efforts in research devoted to cell surface molecules, neurotrophic, and inhibitory substances, and their receptors.
(18) The first is devoted to an explanation of a number of notions stemming from work by Ilya Prigogine and others on open systems far from equilibrium.
(19) That's in 1888; by 1890 the tone is of comic resignation (there is much comedy in these pages) as Edmond realises that he has devoted the whole of his life "to a special sort of literature: the sort that brings one trouble".
(20) This introductory overview highlights the issues that are addressed in this Clinics devoted to non-small cell lung cancer.
Unfaithful
Definition:
(a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.
(a.) Not possessing faith; infidel.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(2) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(3) She could actually be crazy,” and implying that she had been unfaithful for her husband.
(4) Violence was nothing unusual among 17th-century artists – Bernini once hired a hitman to slash the face of an unfaithful mistress, while Giovanni Castiglione attempted to throw his own sister off a roof – but Caravaggio was a repeat offender.
(5) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
(6) But she indicated that he was unfaithful, did not make love to her, and was only interested in her money, of which she had very little.
(7) Those few that are real men are unfaithful and polygamous, but most men are unsatisfactory – rude to their wives, unable to give pleasure, bullying, selfish, indifferent to their children, eager to marry a younger secretary.
(8) The idea came from Soon-Yi, his wife of 16 years, who told him about the friend of a friend – the wife of a financier who imploded after learning her husband was unfaithful and involved in Ponzi-ish fraud.
(9) The relationship between the courts, the press and parliament has been severely shaken over the past week by a froth of injunctions protecting the identity of allegedly unfaithful footballers and other celebrities.
(10) In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
(11) Second, the problem of achieving adequate contrast without the expense of an unfaithful representation of molecular structures is discussed.
(12) DETECTIVE BUNK Bunk likes to hit the sauce and is unfaithful to his wife.
(13) Ruth Ellis had shot an abusive and unfaithful lover in a fit of jealousy.
(14) Either way, she's now being blackmailed by ex-fiance Carl, who has nabbed her mobile phone and wants £30,000 or else Dan gets the truth over a pint of Old Unfaithful.
(15) The written plea hints at a desperation amongst detainees: “We are tired of endless and hopeless life of Manus prison … we would like to request you to do us a big favour and let us know if there is no hope or any chance so that we can call an end to our indefinite limbo here because we are tired of living on this unfaithful earth.” The letter is signed “Asylum seekers of Australia held in Manus”.
(16) A 39-year-old man suddenly became convinced that his wife had once been unfaithful to him, and soon thereafter he became depressed.
(17) For example, the two meals in La Femme Infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife, 1968) pointedly show the shift in the couple's relationship and the child's awareness of it.
(18) Women are, once again, relegated to supporting roles as unfaithful wives, hookers and weirdos.
(19) "Leaving aside him beating up his wife or being unfaithful, this is a guy with a profound sadness in him.
(20) According to Islamic teaching in the area, mental disorders are caused by evil spirits sent by God to punish the unfaithful people.