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devotional, a. (and n.)|dɪˈvəʊʃənəl|
[f. devotion n. + -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, religious devotion, or the exercise of worship (see devotion 1, 2).
1648Eikon Bas. 117 Apt for that Devotional compliance and juncture of hearts, which I desire to bear in those holy Offices. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 257 That high act of Religion and devotional Love which is due to him. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 364 There is another Devotional Passage, cited out of Euripides, which conteins a clear acknowledgment of One Self-existent Being. 1769J. Gillies (title) Devotional Exercises on the New Testament. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 247 The devotional spirit of the older masters. 1859(title) Devotional Helps for the Seasons of the Christian Year. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 244 Contrasting the vexations of the world with the charms of devotional retirement.
2. Belonging to, or arising from, devotion or enthusiastic attachment to a person, etc. rare.
1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 168 Men are apt to subscribe to anything he shall say, from a blind devotional admiration of the parts wherewith he is endowed.
†B. n. A devotional composition; a form of prayer or worship. Obs. rare.
1659Gauden Tears of Church 87 In their disputings against the Devotionals of the Church of England.
Hence deˈvotionalism, devotional character; deˈvotionalist, one given to (religious) devotion, a devotee; devotioˈnality, deˈvotionalness, the quality of being devotional.
1673H. More App. Antid. 25 This Image was the Object of the kissing, with all the exteriour devotionalness used therein. 1736H. Coventry Phil. to Hyd. Conv. i. (T.) The complete image of a French devotionalist. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXV. 600 Lord Pitsligo was of the first class of devotionalists. c1849Clough Poems & Prose Rem. (1869) I. 299 To believe that religion is, or in any way requires, devotionality, is, if not the most noxious, at least the most obstinate form of irreligion. 1850Robertson Life & Lett. I. 327, I should not say that devotionality was the characteristic of Channing's mind. 1859Sat. Rev. VII. 31/2 Mr. Gladstone's particular variety of sentimental devotionalism. 1883J. Hatton in Harper's Mag. Nov. 833/1 To take in the eclecticism of Greek art, the devotionalism of the Mediæval. |