Devotion

Meanings:

Prayers

Loyalty

Religious observance

Origins: Devotion is from the Latin devotio, meaning “zeal.”

In Literature:

From Frithjof Schuon, “Truth and Devotion,” Songs for a Spiritual Traveler (2002):

Devotion—a sound, a wondrous word,
Fragrant with love and holy silence;
A magic word, whose beauty is enough
To convince us of the power of Truth.

“They . . . had followed honor; and this was sanctified even more in their eyes by the magic word devotion.” —Alphonse de Lamartine, History of the Girondists (1847)