"devout about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to indicate someone's sincere and dedicated belief or commitment to something, such as a religion or cause. Example: She was devout about her faith and attended church every week without fail.
Few are more devout about promoting what one French critic called, correctly if pretentiously, "the sacralization of consumer goods".
For such a breathlessly busy person, Blanchett is almost devout about living in the moment, which may be the truest legacy of her father's death.
Since Mr. Seinfeld, the book says, has spent his adult life interested in Scientology, Transcendental Meditation and Zen Buddhism without being devout about his Judaism, this emphasis is odd.
But she added that the art show on Sunday in Texas was a "completely provocative event and I would see many people who were devout about their religion being upset".
In fact, her broadminded parents, though devout, worry about her decision and its implications for her happiness in a sometimes prejudiced culture.
"He told me, 'There have been kings who didn't eat as well as I did.' " What surprises the devout eater about the current effort to preserve the Cajun atmosphere of southwestern Louisiana is its concentration on the French language as the basis of Cajun culture.
In short, trying to talk with a devout Muslim about John Locke or Thomas Jefferson may be a rather short conversion.
His "Requiem" was initially well received although there was some discontent on the part of devout Catholics about a sacred piece sounding so operatic.
Such concerns do not arise with films Mr. Deller has made like "Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode" (2006), an entertaining documentary about devout fans of that band in Eastern and Western Europe and North and South America.
Alexanda Kotey, who was not raised as Muslim, appears to have been the most outwardly devout and zealous about his religion.
Although he was open about his devout Christianity to his nonbelieving boyfriend, Adam Patrick Breenn), he kept quiet about it in some quarters — soft-pedaling the idea that he could never quite inwardly shake, that his sex life was inherently sinful and an occasion for continual repentance.
