devotionn.

/dɪˈvəʊʃən/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s -cion, -oun, -un, -cyon, etc., Middle English–1500s -tioun(e, 1500s -syon.

Etymology: < Old French devocion, -ciun, -tiun (12th cent. in Littré), modern French dévotion = Provençal devotio, Catalan devoció, Spanish devocion, Italian devozione, all early < Latin dēvōtiōn-em, noun of action fromdēvovēre to devote. The order of development of the senses in Latin was (1) the action of devoting or consecrating (to good or evil) by vow, (2) the condition of being devoted (to something good), devotedness, loyalty, fealty, allegiance, (3) (in Christian use) devotion to God and his service, piety, religious zeal. Only the Christian use passed from ecclesiastical Latin into the Romanic languages in the Middle Ages, and appears (with various extensions) in Middle English from Old French. After the Renaissance, the etymological sense ‘action of devoting’ appeared in Italian, French, and English, at first only in reference to religious matters; in the 16th cent. the word was extended to secular persons and things; this is specially noticed as a novelty in French in 1578 by H. Estienne (see Hatzfeld & Darmesteter). As all the senses are now in English, a logical arrangement without regard to history would follow the order, 8 (including 4); 5 (with 6); 1 (with 2, 3); 7.

I. In religious use: appearing in Middle English from ecclesiastical Latin, through Old French.

a. The fact or quality of being devoted to religious observances and duties; religious devotedness or earnestness; reverence, devoutness.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > [noun]

devotion?c1225

life-holiness?c1225

love-awe?c1225

reverencec1300

Godfrightiheada1325

pity1340

devoutness1377

truthc1384

love-dreada1400

fearc1400

pietya1500

godliness1528

devoteness1606

heavenly-mindedness1612

obedientialness1651

piousness1659

devotionalness1673

unction1692

theopathy1749

devoteeism1828

pietism1829

bhakti1832

devotionality1850

devotionalism1859

pi1897

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 271 Þe oðer his heorte þeawes. diuociun reufulnesse..& uertuz oðre swicche.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3459 When þou says praier or orison With over litel devocion.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10123 (heading) Listens now wid gode deuocion.

a1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) x. 40 Þai syng þaire messez with grete deuocioun.

c1400 Rom. Rose 5147 But unto Love I was so thralle..So that no devocioun Ne hadde I in the sermoun Of dame Resoun.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 195 The Sepulcher of Mahomet, which the Turkes go to visite wyth great devotion.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 49 With deuotions visage And pious action, we doe sugar ore The deuill himselfe.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 171 Ethelwulf took a journey of Devotion to Rome.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 199 The austere devotion which..gave to his court the aspect of a monastery.

1855 F. W. Faber Growth in Holiness (ed. 2) xxii. 397 In theology, devotion means a particular propension of the soul to God, whereby it devotes itself to the worship and service of God.

b. Const. to, toward a deity, etc.

ΚΠ

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 666 In somme recompensacion Of labour and deuocion That thou hast had..To Cupido.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxxiiii. 126 This good lady had grete deuocion toward this hooly man and prophete.

1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 244 Extravagant Devotion towards the Martyrs and their Reliques.

1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. i. 241 Nothing could be warmer than Catholic England's devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

†c. A feeling of devout reverence or awe. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > reverential fear

dreadingc1175

devotion?c1225

trembling1303

awea1400

dread1508

awfulness1574

awedness1601

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 211 Amidde þe redunge..kimeð up andeuociun þet is wurð Monie bonen.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 91 All is still and silent, like the fearfull horror in desert wilderness: and as men come neerer and neerer vnto it, a secret deuotion ariseth in their hearts.

†d. A devout impulse or desire. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > [noun] > instance of

reverencec1300

devotion1490

piety1590

spirituality1646

devout1649

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 156 Charlemagne was at Parys, and cam to hym a devocyon for to goo in pylgrymage to saynt Iames in Gales.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxvii. 419 A deuosyon toke me to go a pylgremage to the holy sepulture.

Categories »

a. Religious worship or observance; prayer and praise; divine worship.

Categories »

b. spec. (Roman Catholic Church) Worship directed to a special object, e.g. the Sacred Heart, Precious Blood, etc.

Thesaurus »

Categories »

c. An act of worship; now only in plural, worship, ‘prayers’.

d. A form of prayer or worship, intended for private or family use.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > [noun]

worthingeOE

bigengOE

worshipOE

knowledgingc1225

praising?c1225

holinessc1275

servicec1275

servingc1275

shrifta1300

anourc1330

worshippinga1333

devotion1340

blessing1382

the calves of our lipsc1384

gloryc1384

magnifyingc1384

worshipfulnessc1390

adoringc1405

divine service1415

adorationc1443

reverencingc1443

praise1447

culture1483

common servicea1500

venerationa1530

thanksgiving1533

cult1613

cultus1617

doxology1649

glorifying1748

feasting1840

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7252 For na devocyone Of prayer, ne almusdede, ne messe, May þam help.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1017 Ther Dido was in hire devocyoun.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 137 Her saulter or other bokes of deuocion.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 127 Quhen sadly thai had said thar deuocioune.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxvj The churches were seldome vsed for deuocion.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 41 God sheild I should disturbe deuotion .

1624 J. Donne (title) Deuotions vpon emergent occasions.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 143 At their devotion, they will not tollerate any women.

1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 52 The Queen..goeing to Somersett House to her devotions.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4671/1 To assist at an established Devotion.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 79. ⁋8 If they..read over so many Prayers in six or seven Books of Devotion.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 211 Church Music in Italy..is considered more as a Matter of Amusement than Devotion.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 10 We saw several persons..kneeling at their devotions.

1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. vi. 452 He sent him..a splendid book of devotions.

1876 J. P. Norris Rudim. Theol. i. iv. 70 Devotion, by which we mean the soul's communion with God.

1879 E. Waterton Pietas Mariana ii. 156 The Bead-Psalter..was the popular devotion to our Ladye.

1883 Church Times 21 Sept. 655/4 The wives of the devotioners [Brethren of ‘the devocyon of the Masse of Ihu.’, at Reading, 1493] were honoured with the highest seats or pews next to the mayor's wife's seat.

1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 393/1 The special and formal devotion to the Heart of Jesus..owes its origin to a French Visitation nun.

†e. An object of religious worship. Obsolete.But this sense is not very certain, the meaning of the quots. being in every case doubtful.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xiii. sig. Qq1^v Dametas began to speake his lowd voice, to looke big, to march vp & down..swearing by no meane deuotions, that the wals should not keepe the coward from him.

1611 Bible (King James) Acts xvii. 21 As I passed by and beheld your deuotions [margin Or, gods that you worship; Gk. σεβάσματα, L. simulachra, Wyclif symulacris, maumetis, Rhem. Idols] .

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Double Marriage iv. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeee4^v/1 Churches and Altars, Priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into one rude Chaos.

†3. An offering made as an act of worship, an oblation; a gift given in charity, alms. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > votive

vow1382

devotion1542

votive1608

votive offering1732

devotement1799

ex-voto1823

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 134 To make hir offringis, Riȝte as hir devocioune was, of sylvir broch & ryngis.]

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (1877) ii. 325 To contribute..towardes a sacrifice..other folkes geuing their deuocion towardes it.

1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.i^v Then shal the Churche wardens..gather the deuocion of the people.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 43 There commeth on a time..to crave his devotion, a poore old man.

1626 L. Owen Running Reg. 68 In the lid there is a hole, for people to put their Deuotion in.

1662 Bk. Common Prayer Communion The alms for the poor, and other devotions of the people.

4. The action of devoting or setting apart to a sacred use or purpose; solemn dedication, consecration.[A Renaissance sense, but connecting itself with the earlier religious uses.]

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > [noun]

hallowingc900

blessing1070

benisonc1320

consecration1382

dedication1382

devotion1502

dedifyinga1513

sanctifying1526

dedicating1535

holy-making1535

sanctification1550

consecrating1579

sacring1610

devouement1611

devotement1621

sacrationa1627

devoting1640

sequestration1654

devote1659

dedicaturec1850

sacralization1918

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. vi. sig. rr ^v Deuocyon is asmoche to saye as dedycacyon, or to be ordeyned to serue god and hym prayse.

1657 P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata i. ii. i. §11. 111 He built two Altars, the one..by the Lords appointment; the other..of his own devotion.

1879 W. J. Loftie Ride in Egypt 145 Sometimes the inscription records the devotion of some town or place to a divinity.

II. In non-religious use; introduced in 16th cent. from ancient Latin through Italian and French

5. The quality of being devoted to a person, cause, pursuit, etc., with an attachment akin to religious devotion; earnest addiction or application; enthusiastic attachment or loyalty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > great love or devotion

zealc1450

devotiona1530

addiction?1532

superstition1637

addictedness1641

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun]

truthOE

trotha1225

trueness?c1225

fayc1300

hold13..

lewtyc1330

faithfulnessc1400

perseverance?a1439

adherence1449

familiarityc1450

fidelity1509

devotiona1530

adherency1579

reality1616

rightness1625

lealty1861

lealness1882

a1530 T. Wolsey Let. 7 Feb. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) II. 1226/1 For the singular deuotion, whiche you beare towardes the kyng and his affaires.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. i. 117 But vnto this also I haue no great deuotion.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 31 In the deuotion of a subiects loue.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. i. 8 I haue no great deuotion to the dead.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 19 Hee seekes their hate with greater deuotion, then they can render it him.

1726 J. Leoni Life Alberti in tr. L. B. Alberti Archit. 5 Lewis..had a very great devotion for the Annuntiata of Florence [a church].

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vi. 100 This fervid devotion to art in Charles.

1865 M. E. Braddon Only a Clod I. 9 To attach themselves with slavish devotion to some brutal master.

†6.

a. Devoted or attached service; command, disposal. to be at the devotion of, at a person's devotion, etc. [ < French être à la dévotion de quelqu'un, 16th cent. in Littré] , to be entirely devoted to him or her. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [noun] > authority to deal with as one pleases

dispositionc1374

devotion1558

dispose1594

disposure1606

disposal1630

1558 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. ii. App. iv. 5 Men known to be sure at the queen's devotion.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1300 Considering the multitude of them which is come to his maiesties devotion.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xix. 79 When they had their whirling gigges vnder the deuotion of their scourges.

1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 92 He drew all he coulde to the Catholique Kings devotion.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 94 Shipping is readie now, and at your deuotion.

1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 135 Hee stood now before them in bonds, at their mercy and devotion, as they say.

1709 Tatler No. 68 A little of which [wax] he puts upon his Fore-finger, and that holds the Die in the Box at his Devotion.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 64 The eight ecclesiastics..were entirely at the king's devotion.

1794 E. Burke Pref. to Brissot's Addr. Constituents in Wks. (1808) VII. 315 The sans culottes, or rabble..were wholly at the devotion of those incendiaries, and received their daily pay.

1839 Times 13 May in Spirit Metrop. Conservative Press (1840) I. 337 Such channels as were at the devotion of the minister.

†b. quasi-concrete. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 190 Suche as were of the deuotion of the Earle.

†7. That to which a person's action, or a thing, is devoted; object, purpose, intent. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object

willeOE

errand?c1225

purposec1300

endc1305

emprisec1330

intentc1340

use1340

conclusionc1374

studya1382

pointc1385

causec1386

gamea1393

term?c1400

businessc1405

finec1405

intentionc1410

object?a1425

obtent?a1475

drift1526

intend1526

respect1528

flight1530

finality?1541

stop1551

scope1559

butt?1571

bent1579

aiming point1587

pursuitc1592

aim1595

devotion1597

meaning1605

maina1610

attempt1610

design1615

purport1616

terminusa1617

intendment1635

pretence1649

ettle1790

big (also great) idea1846

objective1878

objective1882

the name of the game1910

the object of the exercise1958

thrust1968

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 9 Whether awaie..? Duch. No farther then the Tower, and as I ghesse Vpon the like deuotion as your selues.

1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. iv. 27 The devotion of the reverse [of the Coyne] is to celebrate the..victory of Augustus over all Ægypt.

8. The action of devoting or applying to a particular use or purpose.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > putting to a specific use

application1447

appliance1555

appliancy?1556

applyment1561

adaptation1597

applicature1652

applicate1852

devotion1861

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 404 The devotion of a few pages to it.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Mar. 5/1 The devotion of half a million to the carrying out of railway construction.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	devotion
释义	devotionn. /dɪˈvəʊʃən/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s -cion, -oun, -un, -cyon, etc., Middle English–1500s -tioun(e, 1500s -syon. Etymology: < Old French devocion, -ciun, -tiun (12th cent. in Littré), modern French dévotion = Provençal devotio, Catalan devoció, Spanish devocion, Italian devozione, all early < Latin dēvōtiōn-em, noun of action fromdēvovēre to devote. The order of development of the senses in Latin was (1) the action of devoting or consecrating (to good or evil) by vow, (2) the condition of being devoted (to something good), devotedness, loyalty, fealty, allegiance, (3) (in Christian use) devotion to God and his service, piety, religious zeal. Only the Christian use passed from ecclesiastical Latin into the Romanic languages in the Middle Ages, and appears (with various extensions) in Middle English from Old French. After the Renaissance, the etymological sense ‘action of devoting’ appeared in Italian, French, and English, at first only in reference to religious matters; in the 16th cent. the word was extended to secular persons and things; this is specially noticed as a novelty in French in 1578 by H. Estienne (see Hatzfeld & Darmesteter). As all the senses are now in English, a logical arrangement without regard to history would follow the order, 8 (including 4); 5 (with 6); 1 (with 2, 3); 7. I. In religious use: appearing in Middle English from ecclesiastical Latin, through Old French. 1. a. The fact or quality of being devoted to religious observances and duties; religious devotedness or earnestness; reverence, devoutness. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > [noun] devotion?c1225 life-holiness?c1225 love-awe?c1225 reverencec1300 Godfrightiheada1325 pity1340 devoutness1377 truthc1384 love-dreada1400 fearc1400 pietya1500 godliness1528 devoteness1606 heavenly-mindedness1612 obedientialness1651 piousness1659 devotionalness1673 unction1692 theopathy1749 devoteeism1828 pietism1829 bhakti1832 devotionality1850 devotionalism1859 pi1897 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 271 Þe oðer his heorte þeawes. diuociun reufulnesse..& uertuz oðre swicche. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3459 When þou says praier or orison With over litel devocion. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10123 (heading) Listens now wid gode deuocion. a1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) x. 40 Þai syng þaire messez with grete deuocioun. c1400 Rom. Rose 5147 But unto Love I was so thralle..So that no devocioun Ne hadde I in the sermoun Of dame Resoun. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 195 The Sepulcher of Mahomet, which the Turkes go to visite wyth great devotion. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 49 With deuotions visage And pious action, we doe sugar ore The deuill himselfe. View more context for this quotation 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes iv. 171 Ethelwulf took a journey of Devotion to Rome. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 199 The austere devotion which..gave to his court the aspect of a monastery. 1855 F. W. Faber Growth in Holiness (ed. 2) xxii. 397 In theology, devotion means a particular propension of the soul to God, whereby it devotes itself to the worship and service of God. b. Const. to, toward a deity, etc. ΚΠ c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 666 In somme recompensacion Of labour and deuocion That thou hast had..To Cupido. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxxiiii. 126 This good lady had grete deuocion toward this hooly man and prophete. 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica 244 Extravagant Devotion towards the Martyrs and their Reliques. 1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. i. 241 Nothing could be warmer than Catholic England's devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. †c. A feeling of devout reverence or awe. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [noun] > reverential fear dreadingc1175 devotion?c1225 trembling1303 awea1400 dread1508 awfulness1574 awedness1601 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 211 Amidde þe redunge..kimeð up andeuociun þet is wurð Monie bonen. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 91 All is still and silent, like the fearfull horror in desert wilderness: and as men come neerer and neerer vnto it, a secret deuotion ariseth in their hearts. †d. A devout impulse or desire. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > [noun] > instance of reverencec1300 devotion1490 piety1590 spirituality1646 devout1649 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 156 Charlemagne was at Parys, and cam to hym a devocyon for to goo in pylgrymage to saynt Iames in Gales. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxvii. 419 A deuosyon toke me to go a pylgremage to the holy sepulture. 2. Categories » a. Religious worship or observance; prayer and praise; divine worship. Categories » b. spec. (Roman Catholic Church) Worship directed to a special object, e.g. the Sacred Heart, Precious Blood, etc. Thesaurus » Categories » c. An act of worship; now only in plural, worship, ‘prayers’. d. A form of prayer or worship, intended for private or family use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > [noun] worthingeOE bigengOE worshipOE knowledgingc1225 praising?c1225 holinessc1275 servicec1275 servingc1275 shrifta1300 anourc1330 worshippinga1333 devotion1340 blessing1382 the calves of our lipsc1384 gloryc1384 magnifyingc1384 worshipfulnessc1390 adoringc1405 divine service1415 adorationc1443 reverencingc1443 praise1447 culture1483 common servicea1500 venerationa1530 thanksgiving1533 cult1613 cultus1617 doxology1649 glorifying1748 feasting1840 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7252 For na devocyone Of prayer, ne almusdede, ne messe, May þam help. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1017 Ther Dido was in hire devocyoun. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 137 Her saulter or other bokes of deuocion. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 127 Quhen sadly thai had said thar deuocioune. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxvj The churches were seldome vsed for deuocion. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 41 God sheild I should disturbe deuotion . View more context for this quotation 1624 J. Donne (title) Deuotions vpon emergent occasions. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 143 At their devotion, they will not tollerate any women. 1678 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 52 The Queen..goeing to Somersett House to her devotions. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4671/1 To assist at an established Devotion. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 79. ⁋8 If they..read over so many Prayers in six or seven Books of Devotion. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 211 Church Music in Italy..is considered more as a Matter of Amusement than Devotion. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 10 We saw several persons..kneeling at their devotions. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. vi. 452 He sent him..a splendid book of devotions. 1876 J. P. Norris Rudim. Theol. i. iv. 70 Devotion, by which we mean the soul's communion with God. 1879 E. Waterton Pietas Mariana ii. 156 The Bead-Psalter..was the popular devotion to our Ladye. 1883 Church Times 21 Sept. 655/4 The wives of the devotioners [Brethren of ‘the devocyon of the Masse of Ihu.’, at Reading, 1493] were honoured with the highest seats or pews next to the mayor's wife's seat. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 393/1 The special and formal devotion to the Heart of Jesus..owes its origin to a French Visitation nun. †e. An object of religious worship. Obsolete.But this sense is not very certain, the meaning of the quots. being in every case doubtful. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xiii. sig. Qq1^v Dametas began to speake his lowd voice, to looke big, to march vp & down..swearing by no meane deuotions, that the wals should not keepe the coward from him. 1611 Bible (King James) Acts xvii. 21 As I passed by and beheld your deuotions [margin Or, gods that you worship; Gk. σεβάσματα, L. simulachra, Wyclif symulacris, maumetis, Rhem. Idols] . View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Double Marriage iv. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeee4^v/1 Churches and Altars, Priests and all devotions, Tumbled together into one rude Chaos. †3. An offering made as an act of worship, an oblation; a gift given in charity, alms. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > votive vow1382 devotion1542 votive1608 votive offering1732 devotement1799 ex-voto1823 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 134 To make hir offringis, Riȝte as hir devocioune was, of sylvir broch & ryngis.] 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes (1877) ii. 325 To contribute..towardes a sacrifice..other folkes geuing their deuocion towardes it. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.i^v Then shal the Churche wardens..gather the deuocion of the people. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 43 There commeth on a time..to crave his devotion, a poore old man. 1626 L. Owen Running Reg. 68 In the lid there is a hole, for people to put their Deuotion in. 1662 Bk. Common Prayer Communion The alms for the poor, and other devotions of the people. 4. The action of devoting or setting apart to a sacred use or purpose; solemn dedication, consecration.[A Renaissance sense, but connecting itself with the earlier religious uses.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > consecration > [noun] hallowingc900 blessing1070 benisonc1320 consecration1382 dedication1382 devotion1502 dedifyinga1513 sanctifying1526 dedicating1535 holy-making1535 sanctification1550 consecrating1579 sacring1610 devouement1611 devotement1621 sacrationa1627 devoting1640 sequestration1654 devote1659 dedicaturec1850 sacralization1918 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. vi. sig. rr ^v Deuocyon is asmoche to saye as dedycacyon, or to be ordeyned to serue god and hym prayse. 1657 P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata i. ii. i. §11. 111 He built two Altars, the one..by the Lords appointment; the other..of his own devotion. 1879 W. J. Loftie Ride in Egypt 145 Sometimes the inscription records the devotion of some town or place to a divinity. II. In non-religious use; introduced in 16th cent. from ancient Latin through Italian and French 5. The quality of being devoted to a person, cause, pursuit, etc., with an attachment akin to religious devotion; earnest addiction or application; enthusiastic attachment or loyalty. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > great love or devotion zealc1450 devotiona1530 addiction?1532 superstition1637 addictedness1641 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun] truthOE trotha1225 trueness?c1225 fayc1300 hold13.. lewtyc1330 faithfulnessc1400 perseverance?a1439 adherence1449 familiarityc1450 fidelity1509 devotiona1530 adherency1579 reality1616 rightness1625 lealty1861 lealness1882 a1530 T. Wolsey Let. 7 Feb. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) II. 1226/1 For the singular deuotion, whiche you beare towardes the kyng and his affaires. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. v. i. 117 But vnto this also I haue no great deuotion. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 31 In the deuotion of a subiects loue. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. i. 8 I haue no great deuotion to the dead. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 19 Hee seekes their hate with greater deuotion, then they can render it him. View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Leoni Life Alberti in tr. L. B. Alberti Archit. 5 Lewis..had a very great devotion for the Annuntiata of Florence [a church]. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vi. 100 This fervid devotion to art in Charles. 1865 M. E. Braddon Only a Clod I. 9 To attach themselves with slavish devotion to some brutal master. †6. a. Devoted or attached service; command, disposal. to be at the devotion of, at a person's devotion, etc. [ < French être à la dévotion de quelqu'un, 16th cent. in Littré] , to be entirely devoted to him or her. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > authority to deal with as one pleases dispositionc1374 devotion1558 dispose1594 disposure1606 disposal1630 1558 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. ii. App. iv. 5 Men known to be sure at the queen's devotion. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1300 Considering the multitude of them which is come to his maiesties devotion. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xix. 79 When they had their whirling gigges vnder the deuotion of their scourges. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 92 He drew all he coulde to the Catholique Kings devotion. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 94 Shipping is readie now, and at your deuotion. 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 135 Hee stood now before them in bonds, at their mercy and devotion, as they say. 1709 Tatler No. 68 A little of which [wax] he puts upon his Fore-finger, and that holds the Die in the Box at his Devotion. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 64 The eight ecclesiastics..were entirely at the king's devotion. 1794 E. Burke Pref. to Brissot's Addr. Constituents in Wks. (1808) VII. 315 The sans culottes, or rabble..were wholly at the devotion of those incendiaries, and received their daily pay. 1839 Times 13 May in Spirit Metrop. Conservative Press (1840) I. 337 Such channels as were at the devotion of the minister. †b. quasi-concrete. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 190 Suche as were of the deuotion of the Earle. †7. That to which a person's action, or a thing, is devoted; object, purpose, intent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object willeOE errand?c1225 purposec1300 endc1305 emprisec1330 intentc1340 use1340 conclusionc1374 studya1382 pointc1385 causec1386 gamea1393 term?c1400 businessc1405 finec1405 intentionc1410 object?a1425 obtent?a1475 drift1526 intend1526 respect1528 flight1530 finality?1541 stop1551 scope1559 butt?1571 bent1579 aiming point1587 pursuitc1592 aim1595 devotion1597 meaning1605 maina1610 attempt1610 design1615 purport1616 terminusa1617 intendment1635 pretence1649 ettle1790 big (also great) idea1846 objective1878 objective1882 the name of the game1910 the object of the exercise1958 thrust1968 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. i. 9 Whether awaie..? Duch. No farther then the Tower, and as I ghesse Vpon the like deuotion as your selues. 1646 J. Gregory Notes & Observ. iv. 27 The devotion of the reverse [of the Coyne] is to celebrate the..victory of Augustus over all Ægypt. 8. The action of devoting or applying to a particular use or purpose. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > putting to a specific use application1447 appliance1555 appliancy?1556 applyment1561 adaptation1597 applicature1652 applicate1852 devotion1861 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 404 The devotion of a few pages to it. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Mar. 5/1 The devotion of half a million to the carrying out of railway construction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?c1225
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