devotional
IPA: dɪvˈoʊʃʌnʌɫ
noun
- A brief religious service.
- A text or piece of music or writing to be used for devotion.
adjective
- (usually religious) Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
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Examples of "devotional" in Sentences
- What gets my attention, however, is the phrase devotional respect.
- Indeed, majoring in devotional theology is akin to a religious calling as well as an academic pursuit.
- This includes a survey of the artwork from the nuns 'houses while considering how images may have been employed in devotional activities.
- He recorded a song of mine after I finished sixth form and when I dropped out of Cardiff University I had started to write worship and what I call devotional songs.
- Recruited by the church to promote an increase in devotional practices, these women were exhorted to create spiritual havens for husbands and children, removed from the materialism of the outside world.
- He reads the lessons in what he calls a devotional way, which consists in reciting all episodes alike, the song of Deborah or the victories of Gideon, as if they were melancholy and pathetic reflections.
- And certain devotional emphases, particularly devotion to Christ's suffering humanity and to the Eucharist (although not, as is often said, to the Virgin) were characteristics of women's practices and women's words. 19
- So, when I first started listening to what I identified as a devotional music, not just klemerishe wedding tantses and the like, but Shalos Shudis Niggunim, new ones indifferentiable from ancient ones , in a secular context, I had to wonder: what are they thinking about?
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