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Devote

verb

(past & past part. devoted; pres. part. devoting)

Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause. Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give. "Give one's talents to a good cause" , "Consecrate your life to the church"

Dedicate. Synonyms: give, pay. "Give priority to" , "Pay attention to"

Set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use.

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... much as the president. He is a target for cranks and idlers and freaks as well as for earnest business men who want to help him or to get help from him. Thousands during the course of a year come to call on him. If he saw them all he would have to turn over the presidency to some one else and devote himself to entertaining visitors. Many of those who come ask for him when he is not at all the man they want to see, but they have been taught in the schools of salesmanship or they have read in a magazine that it never pays to bother with the little fellow, but ...

— The Book of Business Etiquette • Nella Henney

... she cut in, the prompter to admit the truth because it would make him feel better. "He thinks I'm 'only a woman,' fit for nothing but to look pretty as long as I'm a girl, and then to devote myself to a husband and children, without any life or ...

— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

... chapter; but the immense interest which attaches to the subject, and the amount of misconception which prevails regarding the origin and conditions of the maternal family, as well as my own special views upon it, induce me to devote a brief final chapter to a few observations that to ...

— The Position of Woman in Primitive Society - A Study of the Matriarchy • C. Gasquoine Hartley

... teachings lay great stress upon this power of mental concentration. All students of the occult devote much time and care to the cultivation of the powers of concentration, and the development of the ability to employ them. The average person possesses but a very small amount of concentration, and is able to concentrate his mind for but a few moments at a time. The ...

— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi

... But surely such a lovely girl is certain to marry some day. And can we wish it otherwise? Some day a man will come who knows how to appreciate her as she deserves, who understands her nature, who is ready to devote his life to ...

— December Love • Robert Hichens

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