dévoiement (dé-voa-mān), n.m., looseness, relaxation; (arch.) inclination, slope.
dévoilement (-voal-mān), n.m., unveiling, disclosing, unraveling.
dévoiler, v.a., to unveil; to discover, to uncover; to unravel; to absolve from vows.
se dévoiler, v.r., to betray one’s self, to be unveiled, to be disclosed, to be revealed.
dévoîment, n.m. V. dévoiement.
devoir, n.m., duty; task, exercise. pl., lessons. S’acquitter de son —; to perform one’s duty. Être à son —; to be at one’s post. Rentrer dans son —; to return to one’s duty. — pascal; Easter communion. —s seigneuriaux; manorial fees. Se faire un — de; to make a point of. Se mettre en — de faire une chose; to set about doing a thing, to prepare to do. J’irai vous rendre mes —s; I shall go and pay my respects to you. Les derniers —s; funeral rites.
devoir, v.a., to owe, to be in debt; to be bound to; to have to; must. — une somme d’argent à quelqu’un; to owe a sum of money to any one. Il doit au tiers et au quart; he owes money right and left. Qui a terme ne doit rien; no one need pay before a debt is due. Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra; do your duty, come what may. Dussé-je; were I to, though I should. Il doit partir dans peu de jours; he is to set out in a few days. Je dois parler sur ce sujet; I am to speak on that subject. Je lui dois tous mes maux; I owe all my misfortunes to him. Il ne devrait pas abandonner ses parents; he ought not to forsake his parents. Vous auriez dû vous conduire autrement; you should have behaved otherwise. Nous devons obéir aux lois; we must obey the laws. La campagne doit être belle maintenant; the country must be beautiful now. Il devait partir ce matin; he was to have set out this morning. Tous les hommes doivent mourir; all men must die. Il a dû, or avait dû, quitter Londres ce matin; he must have, or was to have, left London this morning.
se devoir, v.r., to owe one’s self; to owe it to one’s self. Se — à sa patrie, à sa famille; to owe one’s self to one’s country, to one’s family. On se doit d’être honorable; a man owes it to himself to be honorable. Cela ne se doit pas; that is not right; that must, or should, not be done.
dévole, n.f., having no trick (at cards).
dévoler, v.n., to lose all the tricks.