| 单词 | devotion |
| 释义 | devotion (once / 191 pages) n If you feel loyal and loving toward someone or something, that's devotion. If your devotion to your pet hamster truly knows no limits, you might splurge on a solid-gold hamster wheel. Devotion also means a commitment or dedication to some purpose. Your devotion recycling is noble, but can you wait until I've read the newspaper? The plural noun devotions can have a religious meaning too, meaning prayers offered to God. You heard the minister was hired for his devotion to God, but the fact that he fell asleep during devotions made you wonder. WORD FAMILYdevotion: devotional, devotions+/devote: devoted, devotee, devotes, devoting, devotion/devoted: devotedest, devotedly, devotedness/devotee: devotees/devotional: devotionally, devotionals USAGE EXAMPLESThe final years of my dad’s life, and my mom’s awe-inspiring devotion and care to the very end. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Despite marrying and fathering several children, Rasputin abandoned family life in search of Orthodox Christian religious devotion and piety. Time(Dec 29, 2016) Their attention and devotion growing up in an era of frauds will be affirmed. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1n commitment to some purpose the devotion of his time and wealth to science Hypo|Hyper cultism devotion to the doctrine or a cult or to the practices of a cult hobbyisma devotion to hobbies fetich, fetishexcessive or irrational devotion to some activity party spiritdevotion to a political party allegiance, commitment, dedication, loyalty the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action 2n feelings of ardent love their devotion to each other was beautiful Syn|Hyper devotedness love a strong positive emotion of regard and affection 3n religious zeal; the willingness to serve God Syn|Hypo|Hyper cultism, idolatry, veneration Bible-worship, bibliolatry the worship of the Bible grammatolatry, verbolatry, word-worshipthe worship of words symbol-worship, symbolatry, symbololatrythe worship of symbols anthropolatry, worship of manthe worship of human beings gynaeolatry, gyneolatry, woman-worshipthe worship of women lordolatrythe worship of a lord because of his rank or title miracle-worship, thaumatolatrythe worship of miracles place-worship, topolatrythe worship of places worship the activity of worshipping 4n (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently) he returned to his devotions Hypo|Hyper bhakti (Hinduism) loving devotion to a deity leading to salvation and nirvana; open to all persons independent of caste or sex novenaa Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days Stations, Stations of the Cross(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary prayer, supplication the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) |
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