Strong emotional attachment

Usage examples of devotion.

As the personal quality of Agassiz was the greatest of his powers, and as my life was greatly influenced by my immediate and enduring affection for him, I am tempted to set forth some incidents which show that my swift devotion to my new-found master was not due to the accidents of the situation, or to any boyish fancy.

A crowd of temples and of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Grecian navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts, explored the dangers of the inhospitable Euxine.

He sank on his knees on the ancient Anatolian carpet on which his father, seven times a day, had made his devotions, facing toward Mecca.

These Ansar were of the finest, their religious ardour and their devotion to the jihad against the infidel at its fiercest.

It was decreed that the faith and devotion of the Ansar should be rewarded.

With Holy Week approaching, the best solution seemed to be to travel to Saint-Cloud, where these devotions could take place away from the angry anticlericalism of the Parisians.

McDaniel was a lean, thin-lipped officer whose eyes burned with hatred of the enemy and all his works, and whose heart glowed with devotion to the Navy, especially the antisubmarine part of it.

The opinions of Arianism might satisfy a cold and speculative mind: but the doctrine of the Nicene creed, most powerfully recommended by the merits of faith and devotion, was much better adapted to become popular and successful in a believing age.

Indulgence to the effect following, namely, that as long as they continue in the verity of the faith, the unity of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience and in devotion to your holiness and your successors, the Chief Pontiffs of the Holy Roman Church, who shall be canonically elected, so long a suitable Confessor chosen by them shall have power under the authority of the Apostolic See to grant to them when in articulo mortis full remission of all sin which they may have confessed with contrition of heart.

Don Jose Avellanos depended very much upon the devotion of his beloved Antonia.

For the whole strength of the love she would once have yielded him for the asking, the Lady Beata now lavished upon Marina, in jealous devotion.

First, Boswell had the industry and the devotion to his task of an artist.

You whose devotion won the admiration of mighty Brahma himself, who saw fit to grant you the mastery of brahman, the force that created, sustains, and nourishes the universeI bow before you, great one.

Later in life he shut himself up for four years in the Charterhouse of London, living a life of devotion and prayer, but without taking any vow.

It had been a labor of devotion and reverence for the small clan to maintain the huge bear for so long, and even the many gifts of food, implements, and furs brought by the visiting clans could not make up for the effort it took.