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noun

Devotion n.

The act of devoting; consecration.

The state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward God appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness. "Genius animated by a fervent spirit of devotion."

Act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer. "The love of public devotion."

Disposal; power of disposal. (Obs.) "They are entirely at our devotion, and may be turned backward and forward, as we please."

A thing consecrated; an object of devotion. (R.) "Churches and altars, priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into rude chaos."

Days of devotion. See under Day.

Synonyms: Consecration; devoutness; religiousness; piety; attachment; devotedness; ardor; earnestness.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Devotion" Quotes from Famous Books

... generally that is the case. The aldermen are chosen by the votes of the Common Council of each ward, and that choice generally falls upon one whom they deem will worthily represent them, or upon one who shows the most devotion to the interests of the ward and city. My father was a prominent citizen before me, and I early learned from him to take an interest in the affairs of the city. It chanced that, when on the accession of the young king the Duke of Lancaster would have infringed some of our rights and privileges, ...

— A March on London • G. A. Henty

... trim silk-clad ankles. Yet, the novel charm of her failed utterly to disturb the loyalty of his heart. His hungry soul found exquisite satisfaction in the spectacle of feminine refinement thus presented for the first time, but his devotion to the roughly garbed mountain girl was in no wise imperiled. On the contrary, his imagination busied itself with an effort to ...

— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily

... of spirit. To business capacity Dr. Carter added distinguished scholarship and the genius of a teacher born. All this was made living effective by single-hearted loyalty to the best interests of the college as he saw them and by devotion to the highest moral and intellectual good of the students. He did not swerve from duty as he understood it to follow an easy popularity. The burdens that he bore and the labors that he accomplished, at personal cost in more ways than one, rested in the last analysis on ...

— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

... the Spirit—and the majority of educated men would probably accept this description of it—seems little if at all conditioned by Church membership. It speaks in secret to its Father in secret; and private devotion and self-discipline seem to be all it needs. Yet looking at history, we see that this conception, this completeness of emphasis on first-hand solitary seeking, this one-by-one achievement of Eternity, has ...

— The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day • Evelyn Underhill

... to the right or left. Elizabeth stared after him. He had passed so close she might have touched him, and how pale and angry he looked! The schoolmaster was one of the objects upon which Elizabeth showered the wealth of her devotion, and she was vaguely disturbed for him. He looked just as if he had been whipping someone in school. Then her own uncomfortable condition obtruded itself once more, and she arose. She straightened her sunbonnet, smoothed down her crumpled skirts and slowly and fearfully took ...

— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith

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