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Definition of Devotional
1. Adjective. Relating to worship. "A devotional exercise"
2. Noun. A short religious service.
Definition of Devotional
1. a. Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
Definition of Devotional
1. Noun. A piece of music or writing about or pertaining to devotion. ¹
2. Adjective. (usually religious) Of or pertaining to ''devotion or worship'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Devotional
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devotional
Literary usage of Devotional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"The critics, in general, have shown bat stinted favor to Dr. Watts'e devotional
poetry. Dr. Johnson pronounced it unsatisfactory, though he admits that Dr. ..."
2. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1882)
"THE devotional USE OF HYMNS. ENRICHMENT OF PRIVATE PRAYER. The Right Rev.
the PRESIDENT. IT has been the custom for some years past at this meeting of the ..."
3. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1866)
"This neat little book gives, in eleven chapters, the author's ideas as to the
devotional use of the Bible, with seven skeleton meditations as specimens, ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"The Christian Life and devotional Literature.—Pietism led to a powerful revival
of religious life among the people, which it sustained by zealous preaching ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and the devotional exercises were almost incidental, now little or no money
contributions are required, the essence of membership consisting in pious ..."
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