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Noun devotion has 4 senses
- devotion, devotedness - feelings of ardent love; "their devotion to each other was beautiful"
--1 is a kind of love
- devotion - commitment to some purpose; "the devotion of his time and wealth to science"
--2 is a kind of commitment, allegiance, loyalty, dedication
--2 has particulars: cultism; fetish, fetich; party spirit
- idolatry, devotion, veneration, cultism - religious zeal; willingness to serve God
--3 is a kind of worship
--3 has particulars: | | bibliolatry, Bible-worship; verbolatry, grammatolatry, word-worship; symbolatry, symbololatry, symbol-worship; anthropolatry, worship of man; gyneolatry, gynaeolatry, woman-worship; lordolatry; thaumatolatry, miracle-worship; topolatry, place-worship |
- devotion - (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently); "he returned to his devotions"
--4 is a kind of prayer, supplication
--4 has particulars: bhakti; novena; Stations, Stations of the Cross
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